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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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. Related Posts The virtual 2021 R Government & Public Sector Conference is coming December 9th &… Continue reading
Jared P. Lander is Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics, the Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup and the New York and Government R Conferences, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, and a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University. With a masters from Columbia University in statistics and a bachelors from Muhlenberg… Continue reading
Below is a non-exhaustive list of some of my more interesting projects. A sampling of presentations are available on the Talks page. Coefplot for visualizing model coefficients (GitHub Repository) A multilevel analysis of wealth’s affect on the contraction of noncommunicable diseaseswith Richard Garfield and Gauden Galea for the World Health Organization 2010 Post Nargis Periodic Review… Continue reading
Continuing with the newly available football data (new link) 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… Continue reading
Thanks to Rachel Schutt, who I’m teaching with at Columbia, and Cathy O’Neil from MathBabe I had the opportunity to go on TV and talk about the statistics of tonight’s Powerball lottery. There’s an article with a brief quote from me and a video where I may a very quick appearance at the 1:14 mark.… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
I’m a few days behind on my posts, so please excuse my tardiness and the slew of posts that should be forthcoming. A-Rod finally reached 600 homeruns a couple weeks ago. While that may have relieved pressure on him, now people are looking toward Jeter’s 3,000th hit. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece predictingthat Jeter should… Continue reading
