How to deploy a webpage in 2022
Instructions for getting a [mostly] static website onto a custom domain, with https encryption, for [mostly] free.
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2020 Census drop, yo.
A look at the implications in the Green Mountains.
The 2020 numbers are in! Let’s take a look at the changes since 2010, Vermont-centric . . . [Read More] -
Otto and Eugene
When any of us have a job that requires courage, and the winds are blowing against us, what will we do?
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
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.
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
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.
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] -
Following a phone case
A good old-fashioned ridealong through the global supply chain.
The order is placed [Read More]