If you’ve ever watched Major League Baseball, one of the feature points of the sport is the batting line-up that each team decides upon before each game. Traditional baseball logic tells us that speedy, reliable hitters like Trea Turner should …
Does batting order matter in Major League Baseball? A simulation approach Read More »
Edit: This article has been updated to 2015. Please see the latest version of the article here. Today I’m going to tackle the question that’s on all Redditor’s minds: How do I get a highly-upvoted post on Reddit? I won’t …
A data-driven guide to creating successful Reddit posts Read More »
Have you ever wondered how the Reddit community has changed since it started in 2005? I’ve only been active on Reddit since late 2011, so I’ve always been curious how Reddit looked before I came along. In this post, I …
Retracing the evolution of Reddit through post data Read More »
I got bored today and threw together some Python code to scrape word frequencies from Reddit and make word clouds. Everyone on Reddit seemed to love them, so I put them up on github so everyone could start making their …
Fun with the Python Reddit API Wrapper and word clouds Read More »
