Shoals

2020 Census drop, yo.

A look at the implications in the Green Mountains.

Posted on August 12, 2021

The 2020 numbers are in! Let’s take a look at the changes since 2010, Vermont-centric . . . [Read More]

On November 9, 1938, Goebbels turned the SA loose on Jewish communities throughout Germany, in a pogrom now known as Kristallnacht. With the veneer of a “popular, spontaneous uprising”, nazis smashed Jewish business, attacked Jews, and arrested them in the thousands, heralding the horrors to come. [Read More]

Democratizing data science where it counts

Posted on July 14, 2020

We at Faraday are data science experts. We have a collective century of experience in the mystical arts of data whispering; we’ve transformed oceans of rows and columns, built and discarded thousands of databases, and molded far-seeing algorithms in a dozen programming languages. [Read More]

Family artifacts

A story about a bottle and a war, with subtext about the magic of corroborating accounts.

Posted on March 9, 2020

My grandmother died last Spring. We mourn of course, but she lived to 100, saw and did amazing things, and the family has more a sense of respectful awe than anything else. In any case this is actually about a bottle of her perfume that came to me recently. [Read More]

How I use Twitter in 2019

Posted on November 11, 2019

I’ve been on a long ride with this microblogging-whatever-the-hell-it-is platform, and I’ve noticed a few patterns in my usage evolving over the years. So here, at the end of the decade, is: [Read More]

A full-throated defense of using Zipcodes for spatial analysis

Psych. It's actually a meek defense.

Posted on August 28, 2019

We, the data-folk of Faraday, agree wholeheartedly with our colleagues at Carto on this sensitive issue: In the USA, ZIP codes(™) are the worst-case scenario base unit for measuring geospatial relationships. Because: [Read More]