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·Mar 2, 2021

5 Charts That Show Just How Much Our Bay Area Lifestyle Has Changed During the Pandemic

We’re moving around a lot less than most of the country — Biggest understatement of the year: Covid-19 has changed our lives dramatically. Besides the massive toll on public health, the pandemic has upended our overall lifestyles. We all know it. We all feel it. To show just how much, I’ve pulled together five charts based on mobility data from Google and…

Data

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5 Charts That Show Just How Much Our Bay Area Lifestyle Has Changed During the Pandemic
5 Charts That Show Just How Much Our Bay Area Lifestyle Has Changed During the Pandemic
Data

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Published in Nightingale

·Feb 16, 2021

Do Republicans Like “Tiger King” and Democrats Like “Schitt’s Creek”?

An exploration of the connections between TV show and presidential candidate preferences — Last year, I came across this 2016 Upshot article from The New York Times. Besides being an example of beautiful data storytelling, the premise of the content intrigued me. Is there actually a connection between what TV shows people like and how they vote in elections? NYTimes claims so. But…

Data

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Republicans Like “Tiger King” and Democrats Like “Schitt’s Creek”?
Republicans Like “Tiger King” and Democrats Like “Schitt’s Creek”?
Data

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Oct 20, 2020

Faster, Louder, More Explicit: How Music Has Evolved Over the Years (and How My Own Musical Taste Compares)

My partner and I discuss music frequently. Some of these conversations are about our shared interest in playing guitar, going to live concerts, and unashamedly blasting Justin Timberlake on road trips. We played “Man of the Woods” a good five or six times on our Yosemite vacation last year because…

Music

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Faster, Louder, More Explicit: How Music Has Evolved Over the Years
Faster, Louder, More Explicit: How Music Has Evolved Over the Years
Music

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Jun 25, 2018

A Guide to Riding BART for People Who Hate Crowds

This is Emma. Emma is seen here taking the Bay Area Rapid Transit, or “BART,” the San Francisco Bay Area’s regional public transit system. Emma is not happy, because this train is too damn crowded. She can barely move her elbow without hitting this poor stranger on the right in…

Public Transit

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A Guide to Riding BART for People Who Hate Crowds
A Guide to Riding BART for People Who Hate Crowds
Public Transit

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Nov 21, 2016

The Supreme Court’s History is Sorely Lacking in Diversity, Presidents and Senates Prefer Nominees Who are Ideologically Like Them, and Other Findings About SCOTUS

Ahhh, the Supreme Court of the United States. Key player in our federal government’s system of checks and balances. The Highest Court in the Land. Nine superheroes cloaked in black. Responsible for so many critical milestones in our county’s history, from denying citizenship to African American slaves (Dred Scott…

Politics

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The Supreme Court’s History is Sorely Lacking in Diversity, Presidents and Senates Prefer Nominees…
The Supreme Court’s History is Sorely Lacking in Diversity, Presidents and Senates Prefer Nominees…
Politics

14 min read


Aug 21, 2016

You Should Have Bought That Condo in 2012 and You Should Have Bought It in Oakland, Plus Other Findings About U.S. Home Value Over the Past Four Years

After thinking about buying a small condo in Chicago last year (I didn’t) and then watching The Big Short last month, I became fascinated with the U.S. housing market. There have been a lot of discussions about the housing bubble that mushroomed spectacularly until 2007 and then burst equally spectacularly…

Housing

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You Should Have Bought That Condo in 2012 and You Should Have Bought It in Oakland, Plus Other…
You Should Have Bought That Condo in 2012 and You Should Have Bought It in Oakland, Plus Other…
Housing

15 min read


Aug 1, 2016

Bernie Spends the Most Money, Creative Agencies Are the Real Winners of the 2016 Presidential Election, and Other Fun Discoveries from Campaign Expenditure Data

In early 2015, I had the chance to pilot a part-time data analytics course in Chicago. A year and a half later, I had the chance to enroll in the same course in San Francisco. For ten weeks, I spent Monday and Wednesday nights after work digging into large…

2016 Election

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Bernie Spends the Most Money, Creative Agencies Are the Real Winners of the 2016 Presidential…
Bernie Spends the Most Money, Creative Agencies Are the Real Winners of the 2016 Presidential…
2016 Election

11 min read

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