by Peter Goldey | Sep 12, 2017 | bites, data for good
A recent study by WalletHub takes a scientific approach to determining “happiness” on a state by state level. The article is worth a read, and there’s plenty of data and methodology behind their approach. I don’t agree with all of it,, but...
by Peter Goldey | Jun 22, 2016 | data for good, TiL
You should check out this report by the Economic Policy Institute. Its long, but this one chart sums it up. There’s a lot more to the study including an interactive chart (great data visualization!) where you can pick your state and see how the numbers change....
by Peter Goldey | May 25, 2016 | data for good, TiL
I attended the SQL NYC Neoj4 meetup “Graph Databases: What You Can Do With Them & What the Future Holds” at Work Market with speaker Andreas Kollegger, Senior Product Designer, Neo4j. Fun gathering, some great new connections. I love the graphDB...
by Peter Goldey | May 1, 2016 | data for good, features, TiL
There have always been rats in NYC. But it seems that things are getting out of hand. Can you imagine calling the city’s rat hotline more than 170 times over the first four months of 2016? That’s exactly what the residents of 335 148th St. in the Bronx...
by Peter Goldey | Mar 31, 2016 | data for good, features
Crime has local impact I recently helped the NY Post analyze the city’s crime statistics for a story. This past Sunday they followed up with another story, The Hotel That’s Become a Hotbed for Crime, using data from the same PopStats felony crime...
