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A Case in Stochastic Flow: Bolton vs Manchester City
A few days ago the Manchester City Football Club released a sample of their advanced data set, an xml file…
Washington DC and the murderer’s work ethic
Continuing what has turned out to be a fun hobby of looking at crime data for different cities (probably among…
How Rooney beats van Persie, or, a first look at Premier League data
I just got one of the data sets from the Manchester City analytics initiative, so of course I started dipping…
Crime in Argentina
As a follow-up to my post on crime patterns in Chicago, I wanted to do something similar for Argentina. I…
Chicago and the Tree of Crime
After playing with a toy model of surveillance and surveillance evasion, I found the City of Chicago’s Data Portal, a…
Bad guys, White Hat networks, and the Nuclear Switch
Welcome to Graph City (a random, connected, undirected graph), home of the Nuclear Switch (a distinguished node). Each one of…
A new collection of (really) short stories
I’ve just put together a collection of twenty hundred-word stories: The Flesh Trade, and Other Nineteen Drabbles. They are mostly…
A flow control structure that never makes mistakes (sorta)
I’ve been experimenting with Lisp-style ad-hoc flow control structures. Nothing terribly useful, but nonetheless amusing. E.g., here’s a dobest() function…
A mostly blank slate
The combination of a tablet and a good Javascript framework makes it very easy to deploy algorithms to places where…
Praefatio — now with a bookmarklet
Improved a bit my stack-oriented Wikipedia reading tool, Praefatio. Still not-even-alpha, of course, but it’s usable enough for me. Itch…