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The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy
I was pleasantly surprised when somebody shared my traveling salesman animation to reddit and the post made it all the way to reddit’s default front page (i.e. the top 25). The gif racked up over 1.3 …
Todd W. Schneider
Hi, I'm Todd. Sometimes I write about things that I find interesting, which can be anything from math to business to sports or culture.
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Open-Source Loan-Level Analysis of Fannie and Freddie
[M]ortgages were acknowledged to be the most mathematically complex securities in the marketplace. The complexity arose entirely out of the option the homeowner has to prepay his loan; it was poetic …
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When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City
Over 50% of peak hour taxi trips would be faster as Citi Bike rides, and taxis are only getting slower
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The Simpsons by the Data
Analysis of Simpsons characters, dialogue, TV ratings, and more
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The Traveling Salesman with Simulated Annealing, R, and Shiny
I built an interactive Shiny application that uses simulated annealing to solve the famous traveling salesman problem. You can play around with it to create and solve your own tours at the bottom of …
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A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bikes: Analyzing the NYC Bike Share System
Analysis and visualization of the New York City bike share system
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Using Countdown Clock Data to Understand the New York City Subway
Ranking the lines by reliability, the anatomy of a delay, and a case for the $19 billion subway plan
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Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips
The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission has released a staggeringly detailed historical dataset covering over 1.1 billion individual taxi trips in the city from January 2009 through June 2015. …
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Taxi, Uber, and Lyft Usage in New York City
Open NYC data reveals the taxi industry’s contraction, Uber’s growth, and the scramble for market share
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The TechCrunch Bubble Index: Parsing Headlines to Quantify Startup Hype
The TechCrunch Bubble Index quantifies the startup funding environment by counting the number of headlines on TechCrunch relating to startup fundraises
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Interactive NBA Shot Charts with R and Shiny
Make your own NBA shot charts. Open-source, interactive dashboard interface to NBA Stats API built with R and Shiny