Archive for the ‘ New York ’ Category
Thanks to Drew Conway for posting this video of me dicussing my thesis (pdf) on NYC pizza. It was part of the New York R User Meetup on Applications of R. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a [ READ MORE ]
Being a stats junkie I’m probably more excited about filling out my Census forms than most people. That said, a lot of my friends have expressed glee at receiving their Census forms. Perhaps that says something about social group. So you can imagine my delight when I came across this giant, inflatable Census form in Union [ READ MORE ]
I don’t mean to shamelessly self-promote here, but I wanted to note that the Slice story on my pizza paper (pdf) has also been picked up by NBC New York’s food blog, Feast, and by Revolution Computing’s blog. For people who don’t know, Revolution Computing optimizes R, the language used by a large number of statisticians for [ READ MORE ]
This article from the New York Times about grilock in New York is from two nights ago, but I think it’s worth a glance. The article is a great look at how slowly cars move. I especially like the line, “Weekday traffic in the district moved at an average of 9.5 miles per hour — about [ READ MORE ]
The Slice article got picked up by MidtownLunch. A lot of people have been asking for my favorite pizza places. The answer depends on what type of pizza I’m looking for, but Maffei’s grandma slice and and Keste are two places that pop into my head a lot. Someone at the ML forum asked about New York [ READ MORE ]
Slice has a nice writeup of a paper I wrote performing a statistical analysis of New York City. The article is nicely written and distills the analysis to the parts people will care about. See here for the corresponding PowerPoint presentation. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Tweet about it Subscribe [ READ MORE ]