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Jun 1, 2019

How many times do you forget a stranger?

Reddit user katyvs1 created an AskReddit thread with the following question: What’s a random statistic about yourself you’d love to know, but never will? I was excited to see that many of the responses were bona-fide Fermi questions, and one response in particular caught my imagination: How many times have…

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How many times do you forget a stranger?
How many times do you forget a stranger?
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Dec 1, 2018

Using Neural Networks to Identify Hate Speech

Last year, researchers from Cornell published a paper describing their work classifying tweets as hateful, offensive, or neither. They experimented with a handful of models and parameters before settling on logistic regression. In addition to the effort spent building and evaluating models, they also extracted a handful of features for…

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Machine Learning

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Nov 8, 2018

An Introduction to the Storefront Index

Joe Cortright and Dillon Mahmoudi introduced the ‘Storefront Index’ in a 2016 report available here. The metric is a simple one, counting the total number of businesses within a city that meet several conditions (publicly accessible, densely located, and close to the city center). …

Data Science

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An Introduction to the Storefront Index
An Introduction to the Storefront Index
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·Aug 23, 2017

The (Unchanging) Statistics of Deadly Quarrels

Statistics of Deadly Quarrels was written by Lewis Fry Richardson and published in 1960. The book is notable for both its findings and for being one of the first examples of quantitative methods being applied to the realm of international relations. Richardson, a meteorologist by trade, turned his revolutionary and…

Data Science

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The (Unchanging) Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
The (Unchanging) Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
Data Science

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Zachary Kitt

Zachary Kitt

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Writer of code. Interested in data-driven policy. Graduate of @JacksonYale and @UCSBGlobal. https://zacharykitt.com

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