Personal data stories

Writing

The work I make on my own time — data essays, side projects, and an ongoing review blog. Self-directed, fully shown, real numbers throughout. Where the Star Tribune work is described, this is all open to read.

01
2020 Series · 11 essays

COVID Diaries

A diary kept in data through the first eleven weeks of the pandemic — quantified self, social networks, text, music, a graduation over Zoom. Most prompted by a Data Storytelling class; a few I just needed to write.

R Pencil Paper Personal data
Open the series ↗
Browse all 11 essays
01 COVID-19: Prologue. Mar 2020 02 COVID-19: Quantified Self. Apr 2020 03 COVID-19: Social Networks. Part 1. Apr 2020 04 COVID-19: Social Networks. Part 2. Apr 2020 05 COVID-19: Data Privacy. Apr 2020 06 COVID-19: Text Analysis. Apr 2020 07 COVID-19: Organization. Apr 2020 08 COVID-19: Music. May 2020 09 COVID-19: A Weekend. May 2020 10 COVID-19: CDC Compliance: Chicago. May 2020 11 COVID-19: George Floyd. May 2020
essays published, cumulative ● real data
02
2023 — ongoing Website · with Osmar

Remote Roast

A coffee-shop review blog I run with my friend Osmar. Data-forward reviews on Twin Cities cafés for getting work done, plus the data underneath every rating.

Jekyll Opinions Facts
Visit the site ↗
Quixotic Coffee · work-from-café scorecard ● real data
From class · 2019 Macalester · early data projects

Predicting Airbnb Price

How accurately can a listing's price be predicted from its features — and what makes some listings cost more?

R Regression 2019
↗
with Anael Kuperwajs Cohen

Real vs. Fake News

A classifier that flags news stories as real or fake, trained on 182 articles from 2016. A Buzzfeed-style brief.

R Classification 2019
↗
with Anael Kuperwajs Cohen