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USNA © 2017 Richard Careaga, all rights reserved

May 2024

13: The Devil Went Down to Georgia

May 2024

9: History and tradition strike again

May 2024

1: What March polls really show

April 2024

29: Presidential immunity, again

April 2024

24: Pick a number, almost any number

April 2024

23: BREAKING!!!!

April 2024

20: Seven Swing States

April 2024

17: The Gray Lady hasn't faded some more, after all

April 2024

11: Trump takes gig as a wax figure

March 2024

29: RINOcracy loses to The First Church of Trump the Redeemer

March 2024

24: 72,057,594,037,927,936

March 2024

20: Donald Trump is running to own right

March 2024

20: Petitioner's brief in U.S. v. Trump, Part I Detail

March 2024

20: Petitioner's brief in U.S. v. Trump, Part I lead-in

March 2024

14: Where have gone all the WASPs

March 2024

10: Conspiracy theory. Why should MAGA have all the fun?

March 2024

8: Lies. Damn Lies. Statistics. And Polling.

March 2024

6: Dead simple bullseye map

March 2024

4: The Importance of Being Earnest

March 2024

4: Ducktyping

March 2024

3: BROKEN NEWS: COURT BREAKS RECORD FOR CONCURRING OPINIONS

February 2024

29: Marquis of Queensbury Turned Street Brawler

February 2024

29: QOTD

February 2024

28: Julia has stolen my heart

February 2024

27: A Good Conspiracy Theory Ruined. Probably

February 2024

24: Lien on me

February 2024

21: If Joe is too old to be the best candidate?

February 2024

20: QOTD

February 2024

19: But can he swim?

February 2024

15: Reply brief of the United States in the Immunity Case

February 2024

13: 2024 PROFILE IN COURAGE AWARD®

February 2024

11: QOTD

February 2024

11: Beauty: it really is a social construct

February 2024

11: It's Complicated

February 2024

10: ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή

February 2024

9: The Law of Defamation: A Modest Proposal

February 2024

8: Bad cases make bad law

February 2024

6: Trump's Last Appeal, Imagined

February 2024

6: Not even bordering on the absurd—complete overlay

February 2024

6: BREAKING: TRUMP NOT IMMUNE

February 2024

6: Show Me the Money

February 2024

5: Focus on the Sausage

February 2024

2: «Best practices» Convert the incoming hot mess

February 2024

2: QOTD

February 2024

1: The Salaryman's Anxiety

February 2024

1: The Concertina Case

January 2024

31: QOTD

January 2024

29: QOTD

January 2024

29: Specificity and recall—which is which, again?

January 2024

28: Classical Gas

January 2024

27: QOTD

January 2024

27: Who, Indeed?

January 2024

27: Words, words, words

January 2024

27: Form over substance

January 2024

26: A Discourse on Economic Inequalities

January 2024

26: QOTD

January 2024

25: Potty training: further to platform [im]moderation

January 2024

25: Review of R Cookbook, 2nd Ed.

January 2024

25: QOTD

January 2024

25: Row collapsing

January 2024

24: The Lost Gospel of Art

January 2024

24: 2024: The Chicago Way

January 2024

24: Careaga's Corollary to Murphy's Law

January 2024

23: Adam Smith on Side Hustles

January 2024

22: Adam Smith on Multitasking

January 2024

22: Category theory, first steps

January 2024

22: Oracle Weekly Digest Week ended 2024-01-20

January 2024

21: The Loose Canons of Statutory Construction

January 2024

19: My First Bold AI Prediction of 2024™️

January 2024

18: The Math of Achilles

January 2024

17: Give War a Chance Q&A

January 2024

17: Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines

January 2024

16: Some say the world will end … in AI

January 2024

15: Cucumber salad

January 2024

15: State of the Disunion: Some problems are just too lovable to solve

January 2024

15: AI Generational Smackdown

January 2024

13: Corporations are people, too, my friend

January 2024

13: The rise and fall of glucose

January 2024

12: Woulda shoulda coulda yield to dinna

January 2024

12: The Ball of the Spring Moon

January 2024

12: Today's Tower of Babel

January 2024

12: The Journey of We the People

January 2024

12: Hello, world!

January 2024

10: On Presidential Impugnity

January 2024

4: Does Nazi Political Speech Have a Place in the Marketplace of Ideas?

December 2023

22: Duck and Cover

December 2023

22: Thunder on the Left

November 2023

23: Why do we have an economy?

September 2023

20: R: A Brief History

September 2023

8: Can/should Trump be disqualified?

August 2023

16: Friday night ball

July 2023

29: Die alten Wege sind die besten Wege

July 2023

27: July 2007: The Great Mortgage Meltdown Gathers Speed

July 2023

13: How to tell when you are officially old

June 2023

8: Some say the world will end … in AI

May 2023

27: On Ambiguity Tolerance

May 2023

25: Eddie Feather

May 2023

5: Without comment

April 2023

30: Visages

April 2023

16: Smartphones would have killed Kodachrome, anyway

August 2020

26: Composition

July 2020

31: A minor lubridate snip

July 2020

30: Look before you count

January 2020

1: Even more wrong

December 2019

29: Not even wrong

December 2019

25: What happened to the streak? rle: run length encoding

December 2019

20: HSL in R, Chapter 1

October 2019

29: Logistic regression

October 2019

17: Metadata for datasets

September 2019

17: Missing Inaction--locating data holes

August 2019

23: Hidden missing data

June 2019

2: eDiscovery is pattern recognition and eyeballs are expensive

January 2019

7: The compiler will tell you what the user cannot

December 2018

8: Less coding and more analysis

December 2018

2: Color Map Atlas for Continuously Scaled Maps

November 2018

7: Commercial data science: a parable of downsides of crisp deployment

November 2018

6: R and Haskell, meant for each other?

October 2018

26: n?

October 2018

19: Month arithmetic in R, a quick guide

October 2018

17: Is this the original revised data or the revised revised data

October 2018

16: Data Science in the Board Room and C Suite

October 2018

10: Cognitive Bias and the Data Scientist

September 2018

29: Ordinary Least Squares Linear Regression Walkthrough for Beginners

September 2018

17: Deboning linear regression output in Excel

September 2018

9: Cognitive styles of data science

September 2018

8: WaPo has some effective visualizations

September 2018

3: Deboning simple linear regression output in TensorFlow

September 2018

1: Go Not Considered Harmful

August 2018

30: The Unbearable Lightness of Coloring Maps

August 2018

29: AI and the Oracle at Delphi

August 2018

28: How to debone linear regression output in Python

August 2018

26: How to debone the output of a linear regression model

August 2018

13: The plural of data science is not formulae

August 2018

11: Analytic Data Scientists -- know when to fold 'em

August 2018

8: Nathan Yau on the challenges of thematic maps

August 2018

5: Newtonian Data Sciences

August 2018

4: An error message is as much of a question as it is an answer

August 2000

27: A Composition