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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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Ideas, investigated with data.
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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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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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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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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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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Building an Efficient Job Shift Scheduler
Building an optimization model that turns complex staffing constraints into an efficient work schedule.
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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.