A round up of recent goings on: Open Data Day was great. Tate Williams, an Open Media Boston reporter, wrote about it. Our OpenHatch event at Harvard also went well, I thought. I’ve got a blog post about it here. I did my monthly data analysis and put it up on GitHub. I’m not making [...]
Modern dating is full of choices: whether between dozens of handsome strangers out at a bar, hundreds of friends and friends-of-friends on social networking sites, or thousands of profiles on OkCupid or Match.com. With so many options, it’s important to be rigorous in your search for a statistically significant other. Here are some tips to [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, I chose to look at the EPA Toxics Release Inventory this month. The full dataset was way too large for my little netbook to handle, so I filtered the results to my home state of Massachusetts, and downloaded it in csv format. I used this helpful pdf to [...]
I have a tumblr, Dismal Science, which I use to keep track of newspaper articles, journal articles, and blog posts on the topic of how scientific research is practised and the flaws and problems that have arisen. Before the archives grow unmanageable, I’d like to take a stab at organizing what I have so far. [...]
Massachusetts is not a great place for transparency. We have some of the worst public access to information of any state in the country, and legislators have barely any oversight or accountability. I’ve heard people talk about trying to get access to information from closed meetings where no attendance is taken and no minutes are [...]
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