SATs and the Single Family Home
I've been teaching classes on home-buying for years and always talk about the tight positive relationship between perceived school quality and single-family homes prices. Here, using data from the US…
Visualizing Cambridge Bicycle Accident Data
In October, a Lexington cyclist was killed by an 18-wheeler in Porter Square. In June, another cyclist was killed in a collision with a landscaping truck in Inman Square. This…
Rails Web App: Home Price Estimator
I recently built a Home Price Estimator in Rails to replace a 3rd party service that couldn't be customized. It uses the Zillow API to obtain a home value "Zestimate" along…
Teaching Scratch to Elementary and Middle School Kids
I signed up to teach Scratch to some kids at my son's school for "project days". Rather than make a video game, I wanted to introduce projects that could be…
Moves in Greater Boston
I've been working with some visualization tools lately. This one uses Venngage and data from the Census (American Community Survey). You can scroll over the image to get detailed data.…
Pfc Mack Thornton, machine gunner, age 22, from Sturgis Kentucky. Thorton is a US Marine with 3/2 Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines. (Photo: Teru Kuwayama)
WordPress in War
Viewed this blog entry on Teru Kumayana's work in Afghanistan over 5 1/2 months. An award-winning photojournalist, Kumayana spent 10 years taking photos in Afghanistan for Newsweek and NGOs, and…
Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011)
Just got the news of Steve Jobs' passing. My husband Hitesh was a huge fan. Here's a commencement address he gave at Stanford in 2005 that has some profound messages.…