Monthly Archives: November 2009

I have an article today in the Ideas section of the Boston Globe entitled League of nations: Bored with football stats? Introducing fantasy geopolitics. It’s like Risk, for the fantasy sports fan.

Christian Swinehart has written a wonderful rumination on the Choose-Your-Own Adventure book series which contains a number of intriguing analyses and visualizations of these books and how they work. Below is a dissection of one of these books:

As someone who does scientific computing, I was aware of the Matlab software package. I was therefore astonished to discover that Matlab is also the name of an area in Bangladesh. I first read about it an an article in The Economist about population growth and fertility rates, where Matlab is aptly being used for [...]