Each State’s Ability to Pick the President
Ken FlerlageDecember 19, 2016
During the past few election cycles, we’ve regularly heard the phrase, “As Ohio Goes, So Goes the Nation,” meaning that Ohio typicall...
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Word Analysis: The Bible
Ken FlerlageDecember 12, 2016
During the election, I spent a lot of time analyzing the word usage of speeches and debates and I thought it was interesting how muc...
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Introducing the Snowflake Chart
Ken FlerlageDecember 05, 2016
In August, I wrote a post about visualizing hierarchies (you can find the original post here ). I began that post by talking about a bea...
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An Interactive Periodic Table
Ken FlerlageNovember 29, 2016
Recently, my daughter was working on some science homework that required her to refer to the periodic table of elements. We didn’t h...
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The Home Runs of 2016
Ken FlerlageNovember 21, 2016
Over the past few of weeks, all of the news (and all of my posts) have been focused on the election and the surprise victory of Donald ...
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Nate Silver Challenge: What Went Wrong?
Ken FlerlageNovember 14, 2016
As many of you have pointed out, my election projections were, well…wrong. So what happened? Before we start unraveling all this, let’...
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Nate Silver Election Challenge: Final Projections
Ken FlerlageNovember 07, 2016
Nate Silver Election Challenge: Final Projections Well, the time has come. After a long, arduous, ex...
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Yes, Trump Can Win (Plus Some Strange Scenarios)
Ken FlerlageNovember 03, 2016
A week ago, Democrats seemed to be starting their victory lap amidst talk of a landslide electoral victory. But, all that was clearly pr...
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Where Do the Candidates Visit Most Often?
Ken FlerlageNovember 01, 2016
As you may have noticed from many of my posts, I’m a bit of a politics junkie. I read everything I can about the election—good, bad, and...
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Nate Silver Election Challenge: October Update
Ken FlerlageOctober 31, 2016
A lot has happened since my September update—the second and third presidential debates and the vice presidential debate; the New Yor...
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Word Analysis of the Final Presidential Debate
Ken FlerlageOctober 20, 2016
Well the third and final debate is in the books. And this exhausting election will be over in less than ...
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Tableau vs. Power BI: My Two Cents
Ken FlerlageOctober 17, 2016
At the end of August, Tableau picked a fight with Microsoft, posting a slideshow titled “10 Ways Power BI Falls Short” ( http://www.tabl...
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Word Analysis of the 2nd Presidential Debate
Ken FlerlageOctober 10, 2016
After the first Presidential debate, I published a post which briefly analyzed the words used by each candidate. Now that the second ...
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Nate Silver Election Challenge: September Update
Ken FlerlageOctober 09, 2016
When I first called out Nate Silver , I noted that I don’t think it’s really that hard to predict the winner of each state in a Presid...
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Word Analysis of the Presidential Debate
Ken FlerlageSeptember 28, 2016
After the Republican and Democratic conventions wrapped, I wrote a brief analysis of each nominees’ convention speeches and I think this...
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Inflation-Adjusted Federal Budget
Ken FlerlageSeptember 21, 2016
For as long as I can remember, people have been complaining about overspending in Washington. This year, particularly since it’s an elect...
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Visualizing The US Drug Epidemic
Ken FlerlageSeptember 11, 2016
The drug problem in the United States has reach epidemic proportions in recent years, led by the ease of access and low cost o...
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The Makeup of a Truly Representative Congress
Ken FlerlageSeptember 06, 2016
The Makeup of a Truly Representative Congress The role of the United States Congress is to represent the citizens of the United ...
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Nate Silver Challenge: August Update
Ken FlerlageAugust 29, 2016
Wow, what a crazy few weeks in the Presidential election! It’s been about a month since my last “Nate Silver Challenge” update (If you’...
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Population & GDP Adjusted Medal Counts
Ken FlerlageAugust 25, 2016
Well, the Olympics are over and the United States finished at the top of the medal count with a total of 121 medals (46 gold, 37 silv...
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What's the Happiest Country in the World?
Ken FlerlageAugust 21, 2016
Each year, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network releases its annual Happiness R...
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Visualizing Hierarchies (Using Religion Data)
Ken FlerlageAugust 12, 2016
I’ve been writing a lot about politics lately, so I think I’ll write about something a little less contentious—religion. Kidding asid...
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Data Visualization: US Olympic Team
Ken FlerlageAugust 04, 2016
The Rio Olympics officially kick off tomorrow evening. Despite the concerns about water, housing, and the general lack of readiness in ...
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Nate Silver Challenge: July Update
Ken FlerlageJuly 31, 2016
Well, it’s been about one month since I called out Nate Silver (If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, check out my original ...
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Analysis of Trump and Clinton Speeches
Ken FlerlageJuly 30, 2016
Well, the DNC just wrapped up yesterday, completing this election cycle’s conventions. My family, including both of my kids, watched bo...
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I'm Calling Out Nate Silver!!
Ken FlerlageJuly 01, 2016
I’m calling out Nate Silver! That’s right, I’m challenging the reigning king of statistics and predictive modeling himself. What’s my ...
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Tiger Woods’s Decline: What Does the Data Say?
Ken FlerlageApril 29, 2016
On Sunday, as I was traveling to my son’s soccer game, I decided to turn on ESPN Radio. At that time of the day, the Beadle & S...
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