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New tutorial

Hi internet friends! I put together a small tutorial using pandas and some API wizardry to do simple analysis. I use open data from Boston and the Wunderground API and deal with data...

In Feb 04, 2017

VoterKarma app

Hello adoring public. This past weekend I attended the Debug Politics Hackathon, a hackathon dedicated to addressing issues with politics, voting and the rhetoric around both. It wa...

In Jan 18, 2017

Basic python lesson

There’s a small chance I may be doing some part-time data science instructoring, so I put together a very basic tutorial for those just getting started with Python (or programming gen...

In Jan 06, 2017

Reddit climate writeup

The Case For Climate on RedditBen Batorsky

In Jan 02, 2017

Reddit climate project

Just posted an exercise I did with reddit data and characterizing the conversation around climate change. What was super interesting was using the networkx library, which allows you ...

In Jan 02, 2017

Update to Wellness Tool

Bad news: I’ve been held up on doing my election project,

In Nov 27, 2016

Data challenge code

Some bonus good news: I put up a data challenge I did for an application. And whether or not they think it’s worth hiring me over, you all get to peruse the code. I have some neatly...

In Nov 27, 2016

Mini update for mini-project

Wow, what a mess, huh?

In Nov 11, 2016