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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a book EveryData and the data the author was using, specifically the relationship between amount of weekly exercise and mortality rate. The more hours a week you exercise, the lower your mortality rate is. But there was a curiosity in the data: Some people apparently were exercising…
Everyday is another day full of news about extreme weather and deathly heat. As I sit here in this sweltering room, I wonder if the malaise pervading through my body is related to the hot room or is something else. Maybe my mind is making it all up due to the numerous news coming across…
I think the moment that I’ve been dreading is here. Since around 2013 or 2014, I’ve always wondered how to prepare for when everything in finance is automated. Artificial intelligence has come for banking. Fortune: Beware, finance bros: AI is coming for banking before any other kinds of jobs, Citigroup warns. Forbes: AI Could Displace…
So, during my almost 2 months of poor internet access, I read a lot of books. One book I read was Behavioral Economics for Dummies by Morris Altman, which was an interesting psychological look at human behavior. I’m not going to dwell on a lot of the what the book has to say because it…
I’m kind of on a little project that entails exploring some ideas and approaches. One day I decided I would ask CoPilot sources of data on temperature. I wanted something on historical sources of data for heat indexes because it seemed that May was unusually warm. It seemed like Texas had heat waves a little…
Another interesting book I read when my internet was down, was EVERYDATA: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day. You would think this book would be boring, but the authors managed to enliven the reading with lots of anecdotes of faulty data, misinformation, sleights of hand, and bad visuals. The book…