Conor McLaughlin

A few months ago, I spent a week in Paris with my mom and sister, visiting museums and exploring the city.

Last February, I began writing an app for my Tidbyt smart display.

Last year, the Washington Nationals finished 12th in baseball in stolen bases.

While not the primary focus of this website, the US housing market is nevertheless a notable interest of mine and something that I will post updates on from time to time.

A few weeks ago, I posted some work-in-progress code that I’ve been putting together to identify planes flying overhead.

This morning, the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) released their latest set of Team Report cards, following last year’s inaugural data.

Looking at Statcast’s leaderboard of the hardest-hitting players in baseball makes it all seem so easy: simply acquire the guys who smash the ball the hardest, and then profit!

One of the many things I enjoy about living in Santa Monica is that it sits directly underneath the Western/Northern approach to LAX.

The past month of NBA basketball has been marked by a staggering amount of individual offensive brilliance, with Luka Doncic and Joel Embiid both going for 70 points, and Karl-Anthony Towns, Devin Booker, and Steph Curry all hitting the 60 point mark.

Earlier today, ESPN reported some bombshell news about Shohei Ohtani’s new contract: it’s heavily backloaded.

Litte Pictures Competition Earlier this fall, I stumbled across a fun data visualization competition called the “Little Picture” competition, advertised with this delightful call to action: help us transform decades of satellite climate data to compelling,

Earlier this week, I came across an analysis with some interesting data and takeaways, but one of the worst data visualizations I’ve seen in a long, long time.

Last summer, I finally caved and bought an air conditioning (AC) unit for my apartment living room.

Pythagorean record is one of those useful rules-of-thumb that every veteran baseball fan knows to consult when there’s an anomaly in the standings.

I’d like to share a sample of recent text messages from my mom: “What is going on?!”

One of my most strongly held hypotheses about the world is that the US housing market is in the early stages of a slowdown that is going to last for quite a while.

Ugh, Juan Soto.

About a month ago, I wrote a post highlighting the new MLB pitch clock.

Growing up on the East Coast, I never thought much about water.

If you tuned into Opening Day last season, you might have been curious where the baseball was!

Last week, the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) dropped a bombshell set of data: reviews by thirteen hundred active NFL players, of their own teams.

This Christmas, I received a Tidbyt smart display as a gift.

Last year, I wrote a post quantifying the cost of home EV charging across the US.

Years ago, I set up a Pi-hole at my house to serve as a network-level adblocker for all my devices.

On November 30th, OpenAI released ChatGPT into the world for public use - changing, with the press of a button, the lives of high school students forever 😂 While the OpenAI blog post explains the mechanics of the model better than I ever could, the import…

Earlier this week, I kicked off a two-part post by describing how the NBA’s multiplier-based luxury tax functions and has been designed to strongly disincentivize teams from spending significantly over the luxury tax threshold.

Basketball is back!

Over the past year and a half, new cars have become dramatically more expensive.

I recently took a trip to Europe - an amazing time - but with the long flight to and from the West Coast, found my body really paying the price in terms of jetlag.

In the first 111 games of the Yankees’ season, Aaron Judge has played in 107 games, walked into the batter’s box 475 times, and taken an MLB-leading 44 nice, slow jogs around the basepaths.

With inflation continuing to run hot across many sectors of the economy, the Federal Reserve has begun to raise interest rates, and seems set to raise them another 50-75 basis points in the coming days.

If you’ve driven your car at all over the last few months, you may have encountered some shockingly high numbers at the gas pump.

It’s been another painful year to be a Washington Nationals fan.

In the leadup to Opening Day, Fangraphs published a series of “Positional Power Rankings”, which sought to measure how each team’s roster stacks up against others in the league, at each position.

Today, I finally got around to migrating my website to use HTTPS and SSL - something that will go under-the-hood to nearly everyone, but is becoming more and more important to do as a foundational internet thing.

Last month, the Senate passed a bill intended to end the jump forward / jump backward era of Daylight Savings Time, and align on a year-round implementation of the summer “daylight saved” hours.

For about the last month, there’s been a new addition to my daily routine.

On December 16th, the City of Portland filed a press release that I wish more cities would publish - a quantitative recap of their shared mobility program!

Last week, T-Pain shared a fun graphic on Twitter (originally sourced from r/coolguides on Reddit) of how many streams are required to earn $1 across the biggest music streaming platforms.

Last year, Cooper Kupp and Deebo Samuel finished as the #27 and #97 receivers in fantasy football.

In most ways, 2020 ended up being a pretty “quiet” year.

For a longtime Nationals fan, watching the Playoffs this season has been a funny mix of nostalgia, jealousy, and happiness.

As a Nationals fan, it’s been a tough season.

The eternal cat and mouse game between pitchers and hitters took another turn this past month, as Major League Baseball made the decision to start enforcing its long-dormant prohibitions against use of foreign substances by pitchers.

Data recently released by LA County shines a light on some fascinating (and troubling) trends in terms of who in the county has been vaccinated.

On March 2nd, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas lifted the state’s mask mandate, and removed all capacity restrictions on restaurants and businesses.

After years of hype and not-quite-living-up-to-his-potential, it seems that things are finally clicking for Joel Embiid.

From 1999 to 2014, the Bowl Championship Series (better now as the BCS) administered a series of season-ending bowl games in an effort to determine the National Champion of Division I College Football.

Building maps that are rich in data and also easy to interpret is an incredibly hard task.

Earlier this summer, before the kickoff of the Major League Baseball season, I wrote an article which sought to predict the odds that any hitters might end the shortened 2020 season with a 0.400 batting average.