Every week since May, I hear TV pundits gleefully report that unemployment figures declined again, that people are getting back to work, and that America is […]

Back on June 30th, I posted an article here about using alternative data to predict future outbreaks of COVID-19, suggesting that Google searches for “loss of […]

Whenever I take one of those “personality tests” that circulate so frequently on social media, I inevitably wind up on the cusp of introvert and extrovert. […]

I was incredibly saddened to receive the alert on my phone Friday night announcing that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away. Growing up […]

In case you haven’t been able to tell by my writing these last few months, my entire workflow centers around data of all kinds. In the […]

After what was an incredibly long, often exhausting layoff for parents all around the world, the new academic school year has finally begun in earnest. Unfortunately, […]

One of the greatest parts of all the different types of jobs I’ve held – from musician, to teacher, to natural resource analyst, to financial analyst […]

I’m not going to lie… working in the financial industry these past five years has been exhausting. And frankly, the last five months have been doubly […]

The late 19th century was one of the fastest developing periods in the history of the world… particularly so in the United States. During the lead-up […]