Thursday, January 23, 2014

Texas Flood: How to Bust a Drought

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Last post  I took a stab at modeling the Colorado River Basin (the one in Texas, not the Grand Canyon).  I crawled data for a two year perio...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Texas Flood: Modeling the Colorado River in Texas

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Central Texas, including the Austin area where I live, is in the midst of a multi-year severe drought.  Walking around town it's easy to...
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Monday, November 4, 2013

Hurricane Sandy, One Year Later

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It's been a year since Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast, and although it's not talked about as much in the national media,  things...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

(More) Fun with Congressional District Maps

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My  last post  looked at the boundaries of Congressional Districts in the US and tried to draw some conclusions about the political motivati...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Fun with Congressional District Maps

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With Congress's approval rating hovering below 20%, it's safe to say that all sides of the political spectrum are unhappy.  When you...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Understanding Aircraft Bird Strikes: (Messing Around with Tableau)

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Ok I'll admit it, I'm a bit of a nervous flyer.  I'm the guy on the plane who looks around at all the flight attendants after ev...
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Monday, June 3, 2013

Analyzing the Semantic Web

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As part of an assignment for a class I'm taking on Coursera, I recently played around with a big data set representing the Semantic Web ...
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