I’ve done alot of network analysis in my career using various tools such as R, Python, Gephi, etc. however always ran into a problem of how to make much of the insights a bit more self-service. Yes, of course you can, as I have, make many plots, posters, or animations, however still lacked that je ne […]
At various times I have been asked to give insight in uncovering optimal locations for buildings. It is a very interesting optimization problems that I find myself coming back to every so often even though I am not formally trained or involved with marketing, real estate, or GIS. There are methods and even ArcGIS has […]
I wrote an article for Applied Health Economics and Health Policy a while back on using decision trees in healthcare. The models are not as sophisticated as the models we were using internally at the time however it gives a short demonstration of the power of decision trees. I thoroughly believe that even these simple models are […]
Anyone who knows me, knows I am a big fan of vintage cars. Luckily for me I live in one of the cities that has a a long history in racing and home to one of the only grand prix that is still done on city streets. A while back I gave a presentation about […]
This is an interactive voronoi diagram of U.S. hospitals. In brief, the algorithm bisects neighboring pairs of hospitals generating polygons. All points within a hospital’s polygon are nearest to that particular hospital. You may think of this area as their catchment area.
This was created for a data visualization display at a conference. Created in d3.js and automatically regenerate data each round.