My Data-Driven Blog

I started this blog to practice text mining and spacial analysis. These next two posts will help me practice. For a simple text mining exercise, I thought I’d look at the most common first names of runners who ran the Rock the Parkway half marathon, the first race of the... [Read More]

As I had already compiled a rich data set from my last post, I wanted to use it again and use survival analysis to contrast the first two races of the Heartland 39.3 half marathon series – the Rock the Parkway and Garmin half marathons (which were one... [Read More]

I wanted to start a blog in order to practice data mining, spacial analysis, and data journalism. Most of my posts will involve personal fitness, as I love to run and anaylze my exercise activity. I ran the Heartland 39.3 half marathon series this spring... [Read More]