Tag: Analyzing

Analyzing Geospatial Data with Python (Part 2 — Hypothesis Test)

In the first post, linked below, we worked with an introduction to Geospatial Data Analysis, where we downloaded the listings from AirBnb for the city of Asheville, in North Carolina (USA) and went through some steps to extract insights from geospatial data. Analyzing Geospatial Data wi...

Analyzing Super Mario’s level and tutorial design

I love watching Conan O’Brien’s ‘Clueless Gamer’ series. The lovable talk-show host plays the role of video game troglodyte to perfection as he ribs on the needlessly complex pretentiousness of many best-selling games. He rolls his eyes through long cutscenes, chuckles at oft...

Detecting Moving Objects in a Video by Analyzing Pixels

I saw Tesla’s full self-driving module’s navigation panel the other day and I was amazed by how the real world was accurately described in the panel. Buildings, vehicles, pedestrians, and even trees were fully re-created in this virtual world and fed to the autopilot model. Tesla ...

Analyzing Exoplanet Data

One of the newest and most interesting areas of astrophysics is the search and study of extrasolar planets. However, the idea of other planets beyond our own solar system is not a new one. As early as the sixtieth century several scientists and philosophers suspected that planets beyond our own sola...

Men Who Hate Women: Analyzing the Phenomenon of the Serial Killer

In Stieg Larsson’s 2005 bestselling thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, journalist Mikael Blomkvist and freelance hacker/researcher Lisbeth Salander investigate the cold-case murders of dozens of women that took place over a 40-year period in Sweden, ultimately uncovering a serial ...