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2026 1

  1. This time is no different

2021 3

  1. Obfuscating your Primary Keys
  2. How to Load IPUMS Datasets into a Relational Database
  3. Exploratory Analysis with the 2020 American National Election Studies

2020 7

  1. Stasis - a simple static site generator
  2. How not to tank a perfectly good power analysis
  3. A Minimap for your data
  4. A Front-end for EDA
  5. Using window functions and cross joins to count events above a threshold
  6. Migrating to Gatsby
  7. Data analysis at the speed of thought

2017 6

  1. Linux From Scratch on EC2
  2. Full text search with Postgres and Django
  3. Legion of lobotomized unices
  4. Let's privatize Air Traffic Control!
  5. Tech and Occupational Prestige
  6. My little rant about systemd

2016 5

  1. Age and Tech
  2. Generating post-hoc session ids in SQL
  3. Deploying Django projects
  4. Svelte Apache
  5. Linux From Scratch in 2016

2015 7

  1. Adventures with Flask
  2. Pedantic SQL
  3. Don't call me a '5:01er'
  4. What it means to be a good manager
  5. Why can't a CEO be a family man?
  6. Blog workflow - jekyll, s3, bootstrap
  7. Release of mlelr 1.0

2014 1

  1. Big data is a terrible term

2013 2

  1. Requiem for a Meeting
  2. Veblen and Vuitton

2012 6

  1. Perturbed by Rounding Error
  2. The Increasing Significance of Sociology
  3. Phrases I hate
  4. Recommendation for Linode VPS
  5. A response to Paul Graham's "How to Make Wealth"
  6. Recommendation for Pair Networks Web Hosting

2011 11

  1. When Speed Matters Part 2 Binary File I/O
  2. When Speed Matters High-Speed Analysis of Large Datasets in Real Time
  3. Happy Palindrome Day
  4. Tool for IPUMS data users
  5. Getting lm_sensors to work
  6. Wireless Linux at boot without X
  7. Building a Home PC - Part 5 Post-install Configuration
  8. Building a Home PC - Part 4 Linux Installation
  9. Building a Home PC - Part 3 Build Day
  10. Building a Home PC - Part 2 Hardware
  11. Building a Home PC - Part 1 Motivation

2010 2

  1. What is analytics?
  2. Industry and Academia