Americans Have Eight Kinds of Days

R
Clustering
Open Data
The American Time Use Survey takes a wide sample of Americans and interviews them in great detail about what they did the day before. They have done this each year going…
Aug 23, 2023
Louis Teitelbaum

Shockingly, Most Reddit Environmentalists are not Greta Thunberg

R
Data Mining
API
NLP
Large Language Models
Document Embeddings
Sentiment Analysis
Social Media
Multilevel Modeling
Greta Thunberg may be the most well-known climate activist today. Along with her climate activism, she is known for her psychiatric diagnoses. In fact, these two aspects of…
Jul 12, 2023
Louis Teitelbaum

Do Employees Tend to Have the Same First Name as Their Bosses?

R
brms
Bayesian Statistics
I was talking to my dad on the phone a few weeks ago, and he brought up a question: Do employers have a bias against hiring employees who have the same first name as they…
Jun 28, 2023
Louis Teitelbaum

Designing a Poster to Visualize the Timeline of Philosophers in the Islamic World

R
ggplot2
DataViz
One day when I was in 5th grade, I walked into my classroom to find a new poster on the wall. It was a visualization of the entirety of world history - I was transfixed.…
May 8, 2023
Louis Teitelbaum

The History of Semantic Spaces

Python
History
DataViz
NLP
Google's Ngram viewer is awesome. Among other things, it's useful for studying historical interest in particular ideas. The 2011 Science paper has some fascinating examples…
Jan 12, 2023
Louis Teitelbaum

Predicting Questions in Dialogue

R
Bayesian Statistics
Dialogue
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Linguistics
Multilevel Modeling
ggplot2
NLP
The Minecraft Dialogue Corpus (Narayan-Chen et al., 2019) is a collection of 509 text-based conversations between players collaborating to build structures. The “Architect”…
Mar 29, 2022
Louis Teitelbaum

Tracking Cognitive Performance with Online Chess

R
Cognitive Science
ggplot2
The tragedy of an undergraduate psychology degree: I sit in lecture after lecture, learning about human mind/brain/behavior. It’s all fascinating of course, but I didn’t…
Mar 15, 2022
Louis Teitelbaum

תכלית מוקד 100 להציל חיים

R
Data Mining
Scraping
Government
עברית
פוסט זה הוא ניטוח אקספלורטיבי-ראשוני. באו איתי להרפתקה ללמוד מה שאפשר ללמוד על מוקד 100 ועמידתו ביעוד המוצהר שלו, להציל חיים!
Feb 15, 2022
Louis Teitelbaum

Statistically Optimal Wordle

R
probability theory
Wordle is all the rage these days. If you’re reading this, you probably already know the rules of the game. You get six guesses at a hidden five-letter word randomly…
Feb 3, 2022
Louis Teitelbaum
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