Todd W. Schneider

[...] “What is the Longest Disambiguation Page on Wikipedia?” on Genius Here’s a Google Spreadsheet with the top 1,000 longest pages, and you can download the full dataset as a .csv from [...]

[...] play trees, and do some data analysis, plus Ruby code to scrape the data. There’s also a Google spreadsheet with the number of paths calculation. [...]

[...] with at least 10 posts in the top 100, led by r/funny, r/pics, and r/aww. Here’s a Google spreadsheet with the full listing of subreddits ordered by number of posts in the top 100. I started [...]

[...] and visualize trends across 30+ years of yuppie nuptials Read When Harvard Met Sally: N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section on Genius [...]

[...] they finally spelled my name correctly. Most of the talk focused on writing some code to do n-gram analysis (here’s the GitHub repo), but there were also a few fun new graphs that show the rise [...]

[...] 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 [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] firm, not a consulting firm! I crawled through the Wedding Crunchers database of NYT wedding announcements to look for mentions of investment banks and consulting firms immediately preceded by “ [...]

[...] is important? Introducing WeddingCrunchers.com, a searchable database of nearly 60,000 NYT wedding announcements from 1981 through 2013. Plot n-gram frequency and visualize trends across 30+ years of [...]

[...] looks like this: Where v(h, s) is a boolean function whose value is 1 if (h, s) is a valid node where the match continues, and 0 otherwise: For example, v(10, 10) = 0 because the match does [...]

[...] tournaments, and WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship all use a match play format. The USGA data was the most accessible so I wrote a quick Ruby script to scrape hole-by-hole scores from [...]

[...] aggregate probability of a cluster 2 post making the top 25 from the top 100 is very slim: Imgur pageviews data I was particularly impressed that my salesman gif received over 1.3 million pageviews on [...]

[...] , in the fall of 2014, that number has declined by almost 40%, to just over $3 bn. The earlier TCBI graph showed a similar decline, from a high of 346 in April 2014 to a value of 209 as I write this. [...]

[...] 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 [...]