Archive for the ‘ New York ’ Category
Shortly after the Giants fantastic defeat of the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI (I was a little disappointed that Eli, Coughlin and the Vince Lombardi Trophy all got off the parade route early and the views of City Hall were obstructed by construction trailers, but Steve Weatherford was awesome as always) a friend asked me [ READ MORE ]
With the Super Bowl only hours away now is your last chance to buy your boxes. Assuming the last digits are not assigned randomly you can maximize your chances with a little analysis. While I’ve seen plenty of sites giving the raw numbers, I thought a little visualization was in order. In the graph above (made [ READ MORE ]
As mentioned earlier, yesterday was Pi Day so a bunch of statisticians and other such nerds celebrated at the new(ish) Artichoke Basille near the High Line. We had three pies: the signature Artichoke, the Margherita and the Anchovy, which was delicious but only some of us ate. And of course we had our custom cake [ READ MORE ]
Daily Intel caught wind of a California Lawyer interview with US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia where he proclaims New York pizza “is infinitely better than Washington pizza, and infinitely better than Chicago pizza.” I may be biased to New York pizza as well, but that is a debate I’ll save for another day. It gets really interesting [ READ MORE ]
As many people are aware two nights ago was a total lunar eclipse that occured on the winter solstice, a pretty rare combination. I won’t go into the math behind the eclipse or the solstice or discuss the rarity or physics of the event. I just want to show off these great pictures. Early Tuesday morning [ READ MORE ]
For the past few weeks Time Out New York’s Dating columnist, Jamie Bufalino, has been fielding letters discussing the ratio of homosexual to heterosexual questions he answers. The readers suggested that disproportionate attention is paid to Gay and Lesbian issues compared to the Gay and Lesbian proportion of the general population. Jamie rudely called his readers “ass-wipes” and [ READ MORE ]
The other week I finally made it to the Ed Tufte exhibit in Chelsea. The gallery is a collection of his art and not about data, though as he tells it data is not important, but information is and that his art conveys information of all kinds. Going on a Saturday means you’ll get a [ READ MORE ]
Drew Conway–a proud member of a collection of statisticians, machine learnists and Data Mafia Shirt predictive analytics experts in New York who have colloquially been named the NYC Data Mafia–got shirts made for the crew. The shirt features a play on the Godfather title image, complete with mariante handles. I just ordered mine and can’t wait to confuse passersby [ READ MORE ]
Last Wednesday I made a trip to Di Fara in Midwood, Brooklyn. Since that place is well covered and lauded I won’t talk about the pizza, as amazing as it is. I gave Dom a copy of my thesis (pdf) on NYC pizza and he loved that his place was one of the few pizzerias mentioned by name [ READ MORE ]
After years of waiting a new Artichoke Basilles our dreams have been answered. The new spot, which hasn’t even been updated on the website yet, is at 17th and 10th opened this weekend. Unlike the original location this one has seats and wait service and only sells pies, albeit smaller than the originals. There is a [ READ MORE ]