This MLK Jr. Day special is dedicated to those in society who don’t have the means to reach their dreams––those marginalized, discriminated, and demeaned. This is for you. As sad…
Popular Words in Christmas Songs
So I decided to make something special and different for the holiday season. While I was listening to some excellently curated Christmas music on the radio when I was on…
Giving Thanks
It’s Thanksgiving. Yup, that time of the year. This is just an appreciation for all the tools that I’ve consistently relied on in the first few infantile months of Infotastical. Without…
China’s Population Problem
So this came up in a class recently, and I thought it was something interesting to share. It’s an excellent example of how well-visualized information can be used to prove…
Obesity and Educational Attainment
So it turns out that perhaps the previous investigation into SNAP and SAT scores could be extended a bit. It’s at first unclear the intermediate effects of socioeconomic status that…
Reading List: SFFA v. Harvard
Here are some documents, articles, and opinions pieces on the ongoing Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard lawsuit that I found relevant, informative and (some) exceptionally argumentative. It ties in…
Born Rich or ‘Gifted’?
I came upon this trending Washington Post story on Reddit analyzing whether or not it is better to be gifted or be born into a richer family. It’s an interesting…
Public Schools in MA – SAT Trends
(This story is continued from the first article here) Okay, so I’ve explored briefly a dataset on public schools in Massachusetts. Specifically, I detailed some of the racial distributions of…
Visualizing a Trillion
Ever since Apple (and now, Amazon) has reached the coveted 1 trillion dollar market cap, many articles and visualizations have popped up that seek to visualize the concept of 1…
Public Schools in MA – Student Demographics and Maps
Introduction On the same theme on education, I decided to dig further. I found a great dataset concerning education in Massachusetts on Kaggle, which was aggregated and sourced directly from…