The other day I found myself walking down 7th Avenue South, as is usual, and I decided to pop into Blecker Street Pizza. I haven’t been there in years because of all the other great pizza in the neighborhood like John’s, Keste, Number 28 (which is claimed best by Citysearch), Risotteria (so I’ve heard) and Joe’s. I… Continue reading
Back in May I finally made it to L&B Spumoni Gardens and Slice was right, it is a Rite of Passage and totally worth the subway ride. My friend and I got a sicilian pie (12 slices) half plain and half mushrooms. They make it in an upside down style similar to New York Pizza Suprema,… Continue reading
Temple professor John Allen Paulos has an article in the New York Times that got Slashdotted today suggesting people be wary of all the metrics that fill our daily lives. His first contention is whether assumptions about categorization are correct. This is certainly important, but hopefully qualified statisticians, social scientists, doctors, etc. . .are making these… Continue reading
Steven Strogatz is writing a column for the New York Times where he discusses math, starting with basic concepts and working his way up to the complex and cerebral. I, and a lot of people, love his column. However, last week’s piece on probability was not received so well by the statistics community., particularly on… Continue reading
The New York Times, in what seems like a continuing series on NYC transportation, has an article about a decline in subway ridership. The article points out declines that were to be expected such as in the financial district or Midtown as well as expected increases like along J, which shares a route with the M and… Continue reading
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. Related Posts The virtual 2021 R Government & Public Sector Conference is coming December 9th & 10th Analyzing Room Temperature Data Inaugural Government &… Continue reading
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.… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
