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The Startup

Passing The College Stress Test

Building a Live College Financial Health Dashboard

13 min readNov 10, 2020

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Passing The College Stress Test

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Alex

The Pleasure of the Text

Reading Latin at Scale

9 min readOct 15, 2020

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The Pleasure of the Text

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Alex
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The Startup

The Shifting Definition of Newsworthiness

Mapping the New York Times’ Datelines Since 2015

11 min readAug 18, 2020

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The Shifting Definition of Newsworthiness

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Python in Plain English

Automating Anki with Python

Make Flashier Flashcards:

11 min readJul 2, 2020

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Automating Anki with Python

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Alex

Visualizing Police Violence

Some time ago I wrote a brief article about a Washington Post dataset compiling all fatal police shootings since Jan 1, 2015. In that post…

2 min readJun 9, 2020

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Visualizing Police Violence

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Alex
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The Startup

What to Read Next? Analyzing the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum with Python and NLP

Since the onset of COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines I, like many others, have been looking for ways to assuage anxiety. I’ve…

13 min readMay 21, 2020

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What to Read Next? Analyzing the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum with Python and NLP

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Alex

Build Your Own FiveThirtyEight Clone, Part 1

It has been a minute since my last post, where I used R to look for evidence of racial disparities in police shootings. I got that data…

5 min readMay 1, 2020

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Build Your Own FiveThirtyEight Clone, Part 1

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Level Up Coding

Morbid Statistics with R

Moving on from the (relatively) lighter topic of getting to know and use some Google APIs, I wanted to do something that focused on the…

11 min readApr 7, 2020

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Morbid Statistics with R

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Alex

Another Bike-Share Data Post : Using Google’s Big Query and Maps APIs to Investigate Austin Bike…

Having seen a ton of these kinds of posts online, I felt I had to write a vanity post of my own. I decided to outline all the steps I took…

8 min readMar 26, 2020

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Another Bike-Share Data Post : Using Google’s Big Query and Maps APIs to Investigate Austin Bike…

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Alex

Alex

Delivering the finest gymnosophistry west of the Indus. An occasional blog about projects I’ve undertaken, usually focusing on data and analytics.

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