Dr. Randal S. Olson

Randy Olson analyzes over 675,000 chess games to explore the role of Elo ratings.

Randy Olson breaks down the code base under the HealthCare.gov website.

Randy Olson explains why skyrocketing student enrollment is partly to blame for rising college costs.

Randy Olson outlines how the new reddit default configuration has affected the subreddits involved.

Randy Olson lists several subreddits that are rising and falling in popularity according to virality trends.

Randy Olson maps out virality trends in niche TV show and video game subreddits on reddit.

Randy Olson maps out the cycles of virality on reddit's front page.

Randy Olson maps out racial diversity in the U.S.

Randy Olson maps out the Game of Thrones-like bastard surnames of the USA.

Randy Olson and Bjørn Østman use fitness landscapes to demonstrate the effect of dynamically changing environments on evolving populations.

Randy Olson and Bjørn Østman demonstrate how sympatric speciation can occur via density dependence using fitness landscapes.

Randy Olson and Bjørn Østman demonstrate the concept of "survival of the flattest" using fitness landscapes.

Randy Olson explains why it's nearly impossible to work your way through college nowadays.

Randy Olson explains why it's impossible to work your way through college nowadays.

Randy Olson visualizes when posts go viral and when they fade into obscurity on Reddit.

Randy Olson visualizes US soldier fatalities from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Randy Olson explains how to use Hashtagify.me and social network analysis for Twitter.

Randy Olson takes a bird's eye view at the "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series by looking at the chapter titles.

Randy Olson takes a look at IMDB data to see if movies are actually longer than they used to be.

Randy Olson explains how you can use technology to increase your influence on Twitter without spending a dime.

Randy Olson debunks Shareaholic's claim that Reddit referral traffic is declining.

Randy Olson explores sex, drugs, violence, and cursing in films over time by looking at MPAA film ratings.

Randy Olson explains how you can save yourself from getting duped by bad infographics.

Randy Olson visualizes and discusses the top 25 deadliest actors of all time.

Randy Olson discusses violence in the film industry and its implications for modern society.

Randy Olson visualizes and discusses the top 25 most violence packed films of all time.

Is the film industry becoming more violent over time?

Randy Olson visualizes and discusses the top 25 deadliest actors of all time.

Randy Olson visualizes and discusses the top 25 deadliest films of all time.

Randy Olson suggests that the data visualizations showing the sudden "polarization of the U.S.

Randy Olson interviews "reddit celebrity" Unidan about his experience teaching science to the public on reddit.

Randy Olson ponders how studies using proprietary data should be handled when published in open access journals.

Randy Olson interviews /r/AskScience moderator Tobias Landberg about his experience teaching the public about science on reddit.

Randy Olson interviews evolutionary computational biologist Bjørn Østman about his experience giving a reddit IAmA.

Randy Olson outlines why he thinks reddit IAmAs are one of the better choices for science outreach on social media.

Randy Olson provides a brief overview of the Sagemath Cloud web service, focusing on the IPython Notebook live collaboration features.

Randy Olson discusses a recently published paper that suggests that evolution plays a large role in shaping ecosystems than previously assumed.

Randy Olson discusses why it is important to make longer runs in Evolutionary Computation and Digital Evolution research.

Randy Olson discusses how and why Evolutionary Computation researchers should incorporate statistics into their research.

Have you ever wondered if an AI could outplay you at Space Invaders?

Randy Olson reviews a research paper that shows us how bigger groups can make more accurate decisions.

Randy Olson discusses the latest research trying to understand how and why animals evolved grouping behavior.

Randy Olson ponders if the Open Science movement is prone to call-outs, and whether that can be damaging to scientist's careers.

Randy Olson discusses how we could replace the current scientific publishing model with a model similar to reddit.

Randy Olson provides a data-driven guide to making your Reddit posts visible to the broadest audience possible.

Randy Olson explores how the Reddit community has changed over time since its inception in 2005 by analyzing posts that were submitted to the various subreddits.

Randy Olson discusses open source and how its philosophies could benefit the scientific process.

Randy Olson demonstrates a new Python library that scrapes word frequencies from Reddit and make word clouds with them.

Given the rising popularity of Twitter reporting at conferences, how do we make our presentations more accessible to Twitter?

A brief report from a workshop run to teach scientists how to use IPython Notebook for scientific computing.