Igor RivinSome COVID-19 Data musings.We have all been sitting under house arrest for the last several weeks because of the dread COVID-19 virus, which slays all in its path…Apr 17, 2020Apr 17, 2020
Igor RivinThe American Civil War, why?Recently, there has been chatter about reparations for slavery, which made me look at the Civil War. The short version is this: Americans…Jun 20, 2019Jun 20, 2019
Igor RivinSuicide ain’t painless II: Does money buy happiness?We continue our study of the Kaggle.com suicide data. The next question we ask is whether the level of per capita income affects the…Apr 3, 2019Apr 3, 2019
Igor RivinSuicide ain’t painless I — or how is a cold war like a hot war.This project started innocently with me showing my students around Kaggle and its treasure trove of datasets. The first dataset which…Mar 31, 2019Mar 31, 2019
Igor RivinIn the long run, or does economic policy matter?John Maynard Keynes had famously said that in the long run we were all dead. The point of the current note is not to argue with the great…Mar 12, 2019Mar 12, 2019