I was going through some of my older spreadsheets and data sets, and came across some materials I put together based on a CNN online article. Unfortunately, this is from way back in the ancient times (2012), so I’m not sure it’s still as interesting. On the other hand, we were in the age of large federal budgets then, and
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Prior to this week, I honestly didn’t know too much about cryptocurrency. I knew the basics, mostly hearing or reading about Bitcoin. I knew there were other types, but had no clue how many. I’ve even got a “if only I would have” story about it; I considered buying some for fun around 2010-2011, but didn’t care enough about it
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Updated research on this topic can be found here: Airline Fleet Totals, Leg Room Analysis Revisited. This more recent article integrates fleet totals for a more complete view of seat pitch distribution across airlines. Research on the topic of airline and airplane seat size comparisons was triggered by an article I read recently. Unfortunately, I can’t remember where the article
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In the previous post, I explored Mother Jones’ data on mass shooting events in the U.S. What they collected was impressive in depth, but only seems to cover a small subset of violence that falls under the “mass shooting” definition (four or more shot and/or killed in a single event [incident], at the same general time and location, not including
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This is part one of a four post series. The most recent post includes an after-Vegas data update, summary of all graphs, and possible solutions to the issue. I get made fun of quite a bit for this, but one of my favorite things is crunching data using Pivot Tables and Charts in Excel. Doesn’t that sound fun? Sadly, I
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Since I recently found out that Google Forms had a large update, I went back to my old Survey on this site to see if everything still worked. For the most part, it did! I was also hoping for some improvements to the Results html/embed process, but unfortunately it’s still pretty similar to the old method. While you can directly
Read moreIs it possible to add a widget or something that shows my Google Local Guide information? Well, let’s give it a shot! I want it to look like this: But instead, it seems to look like this…not quite what I had in mind. Jon • Level 6 4,672 points Learn more about points <!– Place this tag where you want
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So, the sidewalk egg-frying experiment made me think about some of our previous science experiments after work. The first one was an attempt at the classic Diet Coke and Mentos explosion. If you’re not familiar with it, hop on over to YouTube. It’s a fairly popular Bill Nye the Science Guy-style trick. Essentially, adding Mentos candy to Diet Coke causes
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It’s been so blasted hot in Texas this summer, there have been some news stories asking if it was hot enough to cook various food products on various surfaces outside. For example, bake cookies on a car hood, or fry an egg on the sidewalk. Well, some co-workers and I took this challenge to heart, and attempted to fry up
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Well, I’m still trying to figure out how to display quiz or survey results from a Google Document form. In trying to figure this out, I’ve been looking into this WordPress “shortcode.” Apparently, shortcode allows you to pop in some simple code to provide some commonly-sought-after functionality that would otherwise be complicated. Maybe WordPress veterans know all about this, but
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After significant trial and error, I finally nailed displaying survey results on this blog! It’s fairly easy, now that I’ve figured it out. Just publish a page in your Google Spreadsheet (you can create a graph tab rather than publishing the entire thing). After that, copy the embedded link and paste into the blog. It’s that simple! As an added
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I just figured out another fun thing I can do (potentially), so let’s see if it works. I created a very important quiz, housed in a Google Documents form. In theory, I can actually include this quiz in this blog, and the answers will still be stored properly! Well, let’s see if this works. Edit: It worked! Very cool. Now,
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I just wanted to type out an official congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks. They rocked the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals last night, and I couldn’t be happier about it! This post-season for the Mavs seemed almost scripted like a movie, it was so full of amazing and almost poetic events. First, some major adversity against the Trailblazers, with
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