Dr. Randal S. Olson

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Randy Olson shows you how to beat the Original I.Q.

Randy Olson demonstrates a humorous yet useful way to visualize strength training progress.

Randy Olson looks at the new marble racing phenomenon through the eyes of a data scientist.

Randy Olson uses data science to learn whether batting order matters in Major League Baseball.

Randy Olson shows how you can create your own traveling salesman portrait using Python.

Randy Olson uses machine learning to discover how many college football teams can you watch in-person in one football season, which results in a 3 1/2 month long trip around the USA.

Randy Olson revisits the U.S.

Ever wondered what industries employ the youngest and oldest people?

Randy Olson uses machine learning to figure out the best player position switches in Madden 17.

Randy Olson uses machine learning to learn how Madden calculates a player's overall rating.

Randy Olson explores an odd statistic about Republican-leaning states.

Randy Olson analyzes trends in Python package installs to observe how the transition from Python 2 to 3 is progressing

Randy Olson presents demo videos showing a new approach to image classification, where the machine scans and classifies the image the same way humans would.

Randy Olson shows how to create an optimized road trip that visits the U.S.

Randy Olson shows you how to compute an epic road trip across the U.S. when you're on a limited budget.

Randy Olson turns to the data to shed light on how long men last in bed.

Randy Olson looks into the data to find out why Reddit is trying to replace Imgur.

Randy Olson demonstrates why designing machine learning pipelines is difficult, and how it can be automated using TPOT.

Randy Olson delves into supervision and astrology to explain why so many Japanese families avoid having children in 1966.

Randy Olson explores what would happen if the trend of using "novel" and "unique" in research abstracts continues upwards.

Randy Olson embarks on a nonsensical journey exploring what would happen if U.S. college tuition costs keep rising at the rate they have been.

Randy Olson defends the infamous pie chart and explains the correct way to use them.

Randy Olson delves into the data to show why posts get removed by the moderators of /r/DataIsBeautiful.

Randy Olson delves into Reddit comment data to find out what data visualization tools /r/DataIsBeautiful OC creators use.

Randy Olson highlights one example where animated data visualization outperforms static visualizations.

Randy Olson revisits the popularized vaccine visualizations published by WSJ and provide a fresh look on the data.

Randy Olson analyzes MMA fighters and fights in UFC, the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Randy Olson introduces TPOT, an Automated Machine Learning tool intended to be your Data Science Assistant.

Randy Olson revisits the Indego bike share station usage data to find better ways to visualize the daily usage patterns.

Randy Olson demonstrates how small multiples can be used to communicate data more effectively than animated GIFs.

Randy Olson explores a curious correlation showing that female-dominated college majors earn less than male-dominated majors.

Randy Olson analyzes Philadelphia's bike share system to explore how often the bike stations are available for use.

Randy Olson shows how to recreate the famous New York Times weather charts in Python.

Randy Olson demonstrates a web app for exploring trends in American baby names.

Randy Olson demonstrates how you can guess someone's age when all you know is their name.

Randy Olson visualizes the Indego bike share usage patterns in Philadelphia to see how the locals are making use of the bike share program.

Randy Olson critiques the popular population pyramid that the U.S. census likes to use so frequently to display population statistics.

Randy Olson charts out 144 years of marriage and divorce in the U.S. to see how the institution of marriage has evolved.

Randy Olson analyzes the AI that beat all of the human records in the video game "2048" to find out how it works.

Randy Olson shows how machine learning can be used to optimize walking tours in New York City and Philadelphia.

Randy Olson computes the optimal road trip to experience Pure Michigan.

Randy Olson shows you how to compute an epic road trip across South America.

Randy Olson shows you how to compute an epic road trip across Europe.