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Latest — Jan 23, 2023

How Bad Rails Conventions Got Me a Weekend Stay with the CEO of Airbnb

If Brian Chesky, cofounder and CEO at Airbnb, listened to his mom, Airbnb wouldn't exist today. Or at least according to her: "I told him it's a bad idea. I didn't think it was going to work, and I didn't really understand it. If he listened to me, Airbnb wouldn't

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What I’ve Learned from Teaching 1,960 Hours of Data Science

Everyone is learning. Some are further ahead in the process. Nearly 2,000 hours later, and I still don’t consider myself a teacher. Rather, to me, “teaching” is a lively and constant show-and-tell of the unending potential data science unlocks. That’s why I struggle to say goodbye to
May 26, 2017 — 7 min read

Auditing the Federal Government's Snow Day Decisions: Driven by Excitement or Weather?

How behavioral Google search data and scientific weather forecast data play into the federal government’s snow day decision-making. I took this on January 23, 2016, amid “Snowzilla,” which dumped ~22 inches on the Lincoln Memorial.As spring arrives in Washington, D.C., we close the chapter on an abnormal
Apr 3, 2017 — 8 min read

What Real Fake News Says about Obama’s Presidency

Obama & The Onion Generated using text The Onion wrote about Obama during his presidencyFake news is nearly an epidemic. Some argue it tipped the election [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/?utm_term=.5c283fb079c8] (others disagree [https://www.poynter.org/2017/did-fake-news-help-elect-trump-not-likely-according-to-new-research/445724/] ), Facebook has
Feb 2, 2017 — 8 min read

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