Apr 291 minIndego Ridership Recovered in 2019In June of 2019 I posted about how Indego Bike Share ridership decreased for the first time in 2018. This post serves as an update, with ...
Apr 295 minPebble Census 2020After Pebble was acquired in 2016, the /r/Pebble still has 37.9k users and a decent number of posts each day. A lot of the posts are by f...
Jan 101 minDriving from DC to Tampa in Just One DayMy family's annual pilgrimage to Florida usually takes us about 14 hours. This year it took 18 hours.
Jan 36 minExporting Contacts from Parsons Addressbook 6.0: A Lesson In Data ParsingMy Dad has been using the same address book software since he first got a computer, since around 1998. Every new computer he buys must be...
Oct 17, 20194 minAnalyzing Megabus Pricing Structure Through Email Receipts and Confirmation NumbersI have taken 80 Megabus rides in the past decade, I have the receipts to prove it. I've gotten pretty good at anticipating the cost of th...
Oct 11, 20191 minAlmost 9% of Commuters in South Philly Ride a Bike to WorkAccording to data from the American Community Survey, almost 2% of all Philadelphians commute to work on a bike. However, if you remove p...
Jul 30, 20191 minThe Number of Indego Bike Rides Taken Decreased for the First Time in 2018Update, July 2020: According to the Bicycle Coalition, in 2018 bicycle ridership overall was at it's lowest point since 2011. This is lik...
Jan 16, 20193 minUse locationsharinglib to Get Location from Google MapsShare your location with a secondary account First, set up a secondary Google account and use Google's location sharing feature to share ...
Dec 29, 20186 minInstagram Runs Image Recognition Software On Every PostMost people are aware that Facebook is able to easily recognize faces. Recently, I discovered on Instagram that every photo is run throug...
Oct 21, 20183 minFinding Isolation in Philly's Bike Share SystemPhilly's bike share system, Indego, recently installed several new bike stations in the Navy Yard. This is a wonderful idea. Workplaces i...
Oct 8, 20181 minDriving to TFCA on Sunday MorningsHow long does it take to get to TFCA's new building on Sunday mornings in you want to take a car? Use the map below to find out.
Sep 29, 20181 minCommuting to Philly's Navy Yard by CarHow long does it take to drive to the Navy Yard in the morning? I made a map that will answer that question from locations in a 35 mile r...
Aug 17, 20181 minMegabus Ticket Price AnalysisUsing Python, BeautifulSoup, and Urllib2 I scraped ticket price information from a specific Megabus route for the upcoming 60 days. Weeke...
Jun 25, 20182 minDrexel Alerts in Philadelphia from 2013 to 2018When are Drexel Alerts sent out? Ideally the dates and times the alerts were sent would reflect the time that the event occurred, but unf...
Jun 11, 20184 minStudents Submitting Online Assignments: Part 2Since I last posted on this topic I have taken another online class with discussion boards. In this class, the professor decided to imple...
May 28, 20182 minAnalyzing the Influx of Privacy Emails During the Past Few MonthsWith the recent changes regarding GDPR being enacted a lot of emails have been sent in users regarding privacy policy changes. I decided ...
May 12, 20183 minBeautiful Maps of Commuting in PhiladelphiaA while back I read a cool article from the Washington Post, that showed how far a person could drive in one hour from the center of a ci...
Apr 13, 20182 minWhen Do Students Submit Online Assignments?I found myself submitting my discussion assignments at the last minute for my online class. I assumed that most students did the same thi...
Mar 28, 20181 minDrexel Snow Day StatisticsMy first year at Drexel I was told that Drexel hadn’t cancelled school for snow in ten years. That couldn’t possibly be true, but after t...