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Blog

Visualizing Every Premier League Season Finish Since 1992

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football
data-viz
premier-league

34 seasons of Premier League finishes, visualized as an animated bump chart. Arsenal’s drought, Leicester’s miracle, Manchester [City/United] dominance — and a k-means cluster analysis grouping all 52 clubs by trajectory type.

May 24, 2026
11 min

When the Model Is the Problem: Algorithmic Bias in Health Analytics

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health-equity
algorithmic-bias
data-science
causal-inference
machine-learning
public-policy

A widely deployed commercial algorithm systematically underestimated the health needs of Black patients because cost was used as a proxy for need — a design choice that encoded decades of structural inequity. The Obermeyer et al. Science paper exposed this; this post works through the analytical framework for building models that don’t replicate it.

May 7, 2026
7 min

Migrating from Pelican to Quarto: A Data Scientist’s Case For The Switch

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quarto
pelican
python
r
reproducibility

I built this site on Pelican in 2016 because I was new to Python and wanted a framework that was simple to configure, fast to deploy, and Markdown-native. A decade later I’m moving to Quarto because static images aren’t reproducible — Quarto makes the code the source of truth.

May 6, 2026
6 min

SICSS Debrief

review

A debrief on attending the first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Princeton University.

Jul 17, 2017
3 min

Make a Pelican Blog

how-to

How to setup Pelican to build a blog with Travis-CI and deploy to GitHub Pages.

Mar 24, 2016
6 min

My First Post

review
This is my personal blog, built with Pelican and hosted on Github
Mar 21, 2016
1 min
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