How to Buy a Used Car Without Getting Screwed: Part OneBuying a car can be painful. But there are lots of ways to tilt the playing field in your favor.
Data notebook: How old FDA guidelines stymied the abortion pill in OhioSometimes I come across interesting data while researching for work— but there’s just not enough to the story to merit a full article on the Guardian. So I’m trying something new and starting a data notebook…
How we moved our Food Feed from Redis to CassandraThe Food Feed is an integral part of our social graph, as it keeps our users engaged and up-to-date with their friends’ restaurant reviews and pictures, and even offers and discounts from bookmarked restaurants. We chose Redis to power our…
One month at Yammer: This week I learned…Personal learning:People really like honest narratives about…
Racism is not Dark MatterScientists can disagree whether dark matter exists. They can probe and test and even do research on the physics…
A Case for Accountability-Oriented DesignThis text was published in the conference proceedings of the Design and the City…
Data Validation from the Ground UpGathering insights from data can lead to unexpected questions. No data model can anticipate everything that will be asked of the data, but complex queries can coax the data into a shape better suited to answer the question at hand. Sometimes, you end up with several…
