mathematics
Buying vs. Renting: Compare the Numbers
An interactive, private-by-design calculator for comparing the cash flow, equity, opportunity cost, and uncertainty of buying a home versus renting.
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From meal swipes and second dates to heartbeats and Harry Potter - every analysis starts in the real world, then follows the data wherever it leads.
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mathematics
mathematics
The Function That Keeps Up With Itself
Why the derivative of eˣ is itself, what other functions can pull off the same trick, and what this reveals about feedback and growth.
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society
Where Can You Afford Avocado Toast AND a House?
Mapping the American regions where incomes stretch furthest toward both home ownership and the millennial staple.
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health
One Year of Calorie Counting : Lessons and Results
What a full year of calorie tracking revealed about habits, consistency, setbacks, and long-term health.
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health
How to Maintain Your Body in the Modern Workplace
A data-minded look at the small workplace habits that shape energy, movement, and health over time.
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relationships
Designing a Drama-Free Guest List
Using linear programming to build the highest-scoring guest list without inviting interpersonal chaos.
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culture
The State of Black Characters in Comics
Measuring representation and examining how Black characters have appeared across the comic-book universe.
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relationships
Your Friends Have More Friends Than You
Three ways to understand the surprising mathematics behind the friendship paradox.
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education
Detecting Cheating in Lecture Halls
Exploring whether unusual exam-score patterns can provide statistical evidence of classroom cheating.
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health
Top 5 Most Toxic Workplace Combinations for Mental Health
Identifying the combinations of workplace conditions most strongly associated with poor mental health.
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education
Why Girls Belong in STEM and Why There is More to the Picture
Investigating gender, ethnicity, grades, and the forces affecting who persists in STEM fields.
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relationships
How to Get a Second Date
Turning real speed-dating data into a practical model of attraction and second-date decisions.
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education
Unearthing Hidden Biases in SAT Exam Scores
Tracing how school size, participation, location, and family income relate to SAT performance.
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education
Optimizing Your Chances of Medical School Admission
Modeling how GPA and MCAT changes alter the probability of medical-school admission.
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society
Gun Violence in America : An Analysis
A comprehensive statistical investigation of gun violence patterns across the United States.
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health
How Many Hearts Beat in Sync With Yours?
Estimating how many people share your exact heartbeat at any given moment.
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society
Why This Daily Bruin Image Made Me Cringe
Why combining the most common traits can create a deeply misleading picture of an average person.
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society
What is the Probability that a God Exists?
A careful tour through probability, belief, evidence, and one of humanity's oldest questions.
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relationships
Uncovering The Forces Which Break Up Relationships
What large-scale relationship data suggests about how couples meet, last, and eventually separate.
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culture
Detecting Communities in the Harry Potter Universe
Using dialogue and text distance to uncover the hidden communities of the Harry Potter universe.
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education
The Rise and Demise of College Majors
Following decades of enrollment data to see which college majors grew, faded, and transformed.
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society
Salary Dynamics in the University of California
Exploring how role, location, and institution shape salaries throughout the University of California.
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society
Building an Efficient Job Shift Scheduler
Building an optimization model that turns complex staffing constraints into an efficient work schedule.
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society
Analyzing the UCLA Swipes Black Market
Studying the incentives, pricing, and human behavior behind UCLA's underground meal-swipe economy.
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The world is full of deep questions that can be answered with the right data and a curious mind.
I started this blog as a way to see how far we could go by applying data science techniques to the right datasets. It's a collection of my findings, insights, and learnings along the way.