Obsession with Regression

A few months ago I became single for the first time in four years. I went from studying online dating to being a datapoint myself [...

Shengwu Li and I argue in the Washington Post that universities who conduct sexual assault surveys often misunderstand the basic statist...

Brian Clifton, Gilad Lotan and I published an analysis of the fierce online debate about abortion. We visualize the spread of the hashtag...

How do we map the density of a set of events? For example, we might want to map locations of tweets supporting Bernie Sanders as opposed t...

My analysis of half a million drunk tweets, and more than two million tweets about alcohol, was just published by Quartz; you can read it ...

This week tens of thousands of female engineers tweeted pictures of themselves and explanations of the work they do under the hashtag #ILo...

When applying for graduate scholarships, you have an advantage if you’re from a school that’s had many previous candidates: you can read de...