If you’re just a casual Star Wars fan, you might be confused about the order of the movies. Here’s a SAS graph that will help you make sense of it all, before Episode VII comes out this week! If you’d like to see how I created this custom graph, here’s […]
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Saturday Night Live has been on television for about as long as most of us have been old enough to stay up and watch it (since 1975). Therefore, when I saw that Rolling Stone had ranked all the cast members throughout the show’s history, I knew this was going to […]
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1 – For the enjoyment of creating and building new “things” No, data scientists do not build buildings, bridges or cars, but we do build models that can be used to facilitate self-driving cars, uncover fraud or even classify morphologies of distant galaxies. The models we build are solutions to problems […]
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Here in the US, California is known as “wine country” – but I was wondering what other states make wine, and whether there have been any big changes in recent years. This seemed like a good excuse for some graphical analytics… My previous blog analyzed where various Thanksgiving foods were produced. I was […]
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Here in the US, we’ve got the Thanksgiving holiday coming up soon. And the keystone of this holiday is a big dinner, with lots of traditional Thanksgiving foods. But where does all this food come from, and which farmers should we thank for which of the food items? I use SAS […]
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With a major election coming next year, I was wondering if there have been any shifts & changes in the voters in my state. This seems like an interesting opportunity for some data analysis, eh!?! To get you into the spirit of elections, here’s an “I Voted” sticker from my friend […]
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Analytics claim this is the 20th most used word in English writing. What word, you might ask? This word. Which one? This one right here! You might think I’m trying to lead into an Abbott & Costello-style comedy routine, but I literally mean this word … the word ‘this’! As you can […]
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Endless Summer is both a surfing movie, and the idea that “if one had enough time and money it would be possible to follow the summer around the world, making it endless.” Summer temperatures are fine if you’re swimming & surfing, but I prefer slightly cooler temperatures – perhaps an […]
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