Archive for the ‘ Pizza ’ Category
Pizza Girl, a pizza delivery girl who is a regular contributor on Slice, tallied up and analyzed the time she spends on various duties in her pizzeria. This is just the first part in a series, but so far she determined that she spends 67% of her shift driving. According to her pay schedule, she makes less money [ READ MORE ]
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 ]
Slice recently reported that Fark user “Certainly You Jest” tabulated a list of the 25 most mentioned pizzerias. Naturally, I decided to play with the numbers. Rather than write up another formal paper, I did some quick ad hoc analysis for posting on this blog and I will skip some of the more technical aspects. First, [ READ MORE ]
This Thursday, April 8th, I’ll be giving two brief talks (5 to 10 minutes) about statistical methods at the New York R User Meetup. The first will be applying multilevel models to World Health Organization data to study noncommunicable diseases. The second, and probably more fun, will be a presentation of my pizza paper (pdf) that was [ 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 ]
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 ]