Site Signatures: An Introduction

One of the many tasks a young adult needs to master is the art of penning a consistent and recognizable signature. Upon opening a checking account, the bank will require a signature sample. Later, when a check is presented, the signature on the check will be compared...

The Myth of ‘Data Science’

Over the past several years, the term ‘data science’ has emerged as one of those fashionable buzzwords that I hope will soon disappear. The term data science implies that its practitioners operate within the firm guidelines of bias-free and replicable empirical...

Pandemics and Geography

The COVID-19 pandemic has attracted the attention of many data scientists who have happily set off to apply their methods to epidemiology, and unwittingly have waded directly into the complex issues which ‘quantitative geography’ often painfully learned of some...

TNS Index

November is here, which means that Thanksgiving is right around the corner. While you will be avoiding awkward political conversations with your Great Aunt Karen, turkeys will be overcooked and not enjoyed by families everywhere. We started to wonder: where are...