W.B. Plunkett and Lila Boyd Plunkett
Eliza (Lila) Boyd Plunkett in 1935, likely holding granddaughter Lila Anne Matthews (1934–1959)Lila Boyd Plunkett was Alice Plunkett’s mom Here is a picture of Lila Plunkett as a child. Eliza (Lila) Boyd married William B. Plunkett in 1879 (she was 18, he was 20). They lived at 1719 Arch Street in Little Rock for more […]
How I Met My Great-Great-Great Grandparents
I have 32 great-great-great grandparents. Four of them are Virginia natives, and two of them are Essex County, Virginia natives. I had seen that birthplaces for Henry Temple and Sarah Jones Temple were in Essex County, Virginia. My great-great-great grandfather Henry Waring Latane Temple was rector in South Farnham Parish and at St. Paul’s Episcopal […]
Correspondence between Eugene Catchings and Chloye West
Here is the correspondence between my grandfather and grandmother from the time they were 16 years old in 1947 to the time they were married and 21 years old in 1952.
Antioxidant Content in Foods
An study published in 2010 assessed the antioxidant content of more than 3100 foods. The paper they published was a PDF document had 138 pages of tables, listing the antioxidant quantity in foods by category. One of my passions is to make data usable, so I used Tabula to extract the rows Read the […]
Updated Greatest Films of All Time for 2017
A new edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die was published in October 2017, and that means a batch of new movies have been added to the “Greatest Films of All Time” movie recommendation app. In the 7th edition of the ‘1001 Movies’ series, 22 movies released in 2015 and 2016 were […]
Words of Persuasion – The Text Predictors of Persuasive TED Talks
What makes for a persuasive presentation? How can you speak to persuade? To create theodorespeaks.com, I webscraped every TED Talk, analyzed words in the transcripts & user’s ratings, and found that the most persuasive speakers used MORE negative emotion words and LESS ‘I, me, my’ words. So the next time you’re trying to convince, try […]
What’s your favorite Austin restaurant? (What was it’s last health inspection score)
Last night, the organizers of a meetup at data.world issued a challenge: in 1 hour, pull together 1 visualization that tells a story from an open dataset. Our team created an interactive dashboard to explore 3 years of good and bad restaurant health inspection scores in Austin. Search by restaurant name, choose your zip code […]
The greatest films of all time- a list compiled from multiple sources
This web app and open dataset I made for movie fans compiles several ‘greatest films’ lists to find the greatest of the great, and the analysis reveals seven films to be the best of the best. Here’s a Movie Recommender visualization and interface for the data hosted on Tableau Public: The Problem There’s nothing worse […]
Comedy Central Presents – Complete Episode List with IMDB Ratings
If you are serious about laughing, here’s a dataset for you and a visualization (below and here) you can use to explore it. Good stand-up comedy looks easy, but it is a structured, precise, and subtle form of communication, a tightrope walk in front of a live audience, that is always a millisecond or a […]
It’s All Connected
The ToK System as described by Henriques (2003). It’s all connected isn’t it? It’s not just six degrees of separation from any actor to Kevin Bacon, it’s a low number of degrees of separation between anything and anything else in the world. Start with any observation or fact and you can get to any other […]