Its All About the Story
Engage your audience by telling a great story. That’s what BrickUnderground did for recent grads navigating NYC’s real estate neighborhood waters.
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List Conflict! Top Cities for Jobs…or are they?
I talk a lot about data bias and methodology. My clients understand that how we ask the question often determines the answer. More specifically, how we select and weight data, filter candidates and build the model can lead to very different predictions and rankings....
read moreThe “Analytics Adjacent”
At the ODSC East 2016, I heard a lot of terms thrown about. This one resonated. It came out of a talk by Todd Cioffi, formerly from RapidMiner and now with the Mass Gov data initiative. He defined this as “The Analytics Adjacent” - people with expertise and skills...
read moreAre Rats Taking Over?
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 have done....
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The Inequality of Taxes in NYC
This past Sunday an article I researched was published in the NY Post - Financial District residents get highest tax bills, returns in city We like to think of New York City as The Melting Pot...and as a whole its the most diverse city in the country hands down....
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Crime in NYC is REALLY Hyper-Local
The PopStats dataset reports crimes to the midpoint of each block. I took a look at the data for the six surrounding blocks and found that maybe 71st between Columbus and CPW isn’t that bad after all.
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The Problem with Net-Worth
Do you work with the Census Bureau’s net worth estimates? Did you notice that their statistical ranges top out at $500k? I sure did. What’s the big deal?
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“Best in Travel” – the Power of Local Data in Work, Life and Play
This post written by me initially appeared on the Onboard Blog We just finished up a new project with Money.com - their first ever Best in Travel story. This one was a lot of fun and pushed us to work with content outside of our traditional Real Estate roots while...
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NYC’s “Most Dangerous Blocks” – taking a VERY local look at crime
Or why you want to stay out of Rikers! This post written by me initially appeared on the Onboard Blog New York City recently released its new crime visualization app CompStat 2 which provides public access to the same crime statistics used by the NYPD. The NY Post,...
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Tying data together with Talia Jane
This post written by me initially appeared on the Onboard Blog Your goal Be relevant. Be part of the conversation. Turn social buzz into traffic. You have a demographic to target. You have your own content. You're looking for something to tie it together. Are you...
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