Policy, Politics, and Data

Rethinking how democracy actually works

Three suggestions for being persuasive online

Waste, Fraud, and Abuse is a slogan used to hide the basic tradeoff that cutting spending requires cutting services.

Over half of Louisville’s land is reserved for large single family dwellings.

Simpson’s Paradox illustrated with Penguins

A tutorial on how to make maps by pulling Census data into Python

Using partitioned regression to gain a better understanding of how linear regression works.

An introduction to thinking about causal models for data analysis.

A quick look back at how Racing Louisville played in their first season in the NWSL

This post is a start to finish descriptive analysis of high speed internet access in Kentucky, including tables, graphs, and maps.