Monthly Archives: September 2014

Uber Taxi Bar Chart Fail

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Nick

I thought I would share something I found in an advertisement/marketing email from Uber Taxi.  See anything amiss about the bar charts? Let's hope Uber doesn't charge rates like they scale their bar charts.  Could be bad for business.

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The Hobbies of the Scripps 2014 Spelling Bee Contestants

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Nick

I downloaded text data from  http://public.spellingbee.com/public/results/2014/round_results  and performed some text mining on the contestant interviews and came up with some interesting results.  The hobby with the highest round average was Volunteering followed by Chess and Movies.  I filtered for hobbies … Continue reading →

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