Archive for the ‘ New York ’ Category
Continuing the annual tradition of Pi Cakes from Chrissie Cook we have gotten another Pi Cake! This year we let Drew Conway’s wife pick the flavors and she went with vanilla and red velvet (the blue color is to cause some cognitive dissonance). Looking forward to enjoying this tonight after some pizza. Previous cakes in [ READ MORE ]
Given the warnings for today’s winter storm, or lack of panic, I thought it would be a good time to plot the NYC evacuation maps using R. Of course these are already available online, provided by the city, but why not build them in R as well? I obtained the shapefiles from NYC Open Data [ READ MORE ]
Continuing with the newly available football data and inspired by a question from Drew Conway I decided to look at play selection based on down by the Giants for the past 10 years. Visually, we see that until 2011 the Giants preferred to run on first and second down. Third down is usually a do-or-die down so [ READ MORE ]
About a month ago we had our final Data Science class of the semester. We took a great class photo that I meant to share then but am just getting to it now. I also snapped a great shot of Adam Obeng in front of an NYC Data Mafia slide during his class presentation. Digg [ READ MORE ]
With the recent availability of play-by-play NFL data I got to analyzing my favorite team, the New York Giants with some very hasty EDA. From the above graph you can see that on 1st down Eli preferred to throw to Hakim Nicks and on 2nd and 3rd downs he slightly favored Victor Cruz. The code for [ READ MORE ]
Results from previous polls are below. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend[ READ MORE ]
A friend of mine has told me on numerous occasions that since 1960 the Yankees have not won a World Series while a Republican was President. Upon hearing this my Republican friends (both Yankee and Red Sox fans) turn incredulous and say that this is ridiculous. So I decided to investigate. To be clear this [ READ MORE ]
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Wes McKinney and I are hosting our first ever Open Statistical Programming meetup tomorrow night after taking over for Drew Conway. Please attend, have some pizza, enjoy the talk then come out for some beer. This meetup is about EDA, Visualization and Collaboration on the Web and will be presented by Carlos Scheidegger from AT&T Labs. [ READ MORE ]
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 ]