It is said that all truth passes through three stages, ridicule, violent opposition, and finally acceptance. The Donald Trump phenomenon has already gone from the first to the second, and on its way to acceptance. Much ink has been spilt over how terrible and mean…

(This is cross-posted from my personal site. I haven’t found a good way to post R markdown (or Ipython notebooks) in Medium. I will therefore copy paste the text/images here, for now. For the text and code, look here)

What do Iowa Polls tell us?

The title of a New York Times article this week put it succinctly, “Donald Trump’s lousy…

I just finished Christian Rudder’s Dataclysm last week. Inspired by his analysis of…

Politics is the battle of ideologies, fundamentally different visions of the same country. And then there is…