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Senior Bread Price Fixing Engineer
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Jan 5, 2022

A look at growing neighborhood diversity, and continued segregation, in the 21st century United States

One of my favorite articles, published by Nate Silver in 2015, is titled “The Most Diverse Cities Are Often the Most Segregated”. It’s a great piece that combines storytelling, visualization and number-crunching to clearly explain most of the key pattens of segregation in major U.S. cities. Now that the 2020…

Demographics

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A look at growing neighborhood diversity, and continued segregation, in the 21st century United…
A look at growing neighborhood diversity, and continued segregation, in the 21st century United…
Demographics

8 min read


Sep 16, 2021

Redistricting 2021: Republicans pass up an open shot in Northern Indiana, but make a layup in Central Indiana

The proposed new congressional map in Indiana would bolster Republicans by shoring up the left-trending 5th district, but it’s not as…

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Redistricting 2021: Republicans pass up an open shot in Northern Indiana, but make a layup in…
Redistricting 2021: Republicans pass up an open shot in Northern Indiana, but make a layup in…

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Aug 23, 2021

Chicago census 2020: an extremely mixed bag

For just the second time in the last 70 years, the City of Chicago posted population growth from one decennial census to the next, adding a little over 50,000 people. Of course, in such a large City, growth is never going to be even. No matter how you slice it…

Chicago

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Chicago census 2020: an extremely mixed bag
Chicago census 2020: an extremely mixed bag
Chicago

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Apr 28, 2021

The Census and ACS paint significantly different pictures. Somebody’s wrong.

For decades, the dominant trend in US demography has been rapid growth in major metro areas in the South and West, and stagnation in the Northeast and Midwest. For each of the past 10 years, annual estimates from the American Community Survey suggested that this trend was continuing at a…

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The Census and ACS paint significantly different pictures. Somebody’s wrong.
The Census and ACS paint significantly different pictures. Somebody’s wrong.

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Mar 31, 2021

How Trump Broke the Electoral College, and how Democrats can Unbreak it

After the 2012 election, many believed it would be a permanent struggle for Republicans to win the Electoral College. Barack Obama had just crusied to a relatively comfortable re-election. Not only did he win the national popular vote by almost 5 million votes, but the Electoral College was slanted in…

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How Trump Broke the Electoral College, and how Democrats can Unbreak it
How Trump Broke the Electoral College, and how Democrats can Unbreak it

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Feb 10, 2021

No, U.S. Cities are not Playgrounds for the Wealthy

A claim I see pop up on Twitter every now and then is that American cities have become “playgrounds for the wealthy”, or at least the young, childless wealthy. This claim often goes uncontested, which seems strange to me, because it’s false by any reasonable logic. Here’s why: In almost every major metro, the City has a higher poverty rate than the suburbs Here’s a…

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No, U.S. Cities are not Playgrounds for the Wealthy
No, U.S. Cities are not Playgrounds for the Wealthy

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Jan 30, 2021

My initial 2022 ratings, explained

Ohio: Safe R Don’t waste your money on this one. Ohio was 12.5 points to the right of the nation in 2020, and didn’t move at all from 2016 to 2020. In a neutral national enviornment, it won’t be close. In a D+4 national enviornment, it won’t be close. …

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My initial 2022 ratings, explained
My initial 2022 ratings, explained

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Jan 24, 2021

Why Doomerism is still Shorpilled

I’ve seen a lot of optimism on the feed about the future of US politics since Democrats won the Georgia runoffs. While that was indeed a very important win, it only moved my level optimism about the future of US politics from “absolutely dire” to “maybe we have a chance…

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Why Doomerism is still Shorpilled
Why Doomerism is still Shorpilled

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Jan 19, 2021

Superstar cities versus everyone else is a fake problem

“Going to DC on a field trip in middle school was my personal Vietnam” — Midwest Boomers No event symbolized the prevailing narrative of superstar city dominance better than Amazon’s HQ2 search. Over the course of 14 months, the e-commerce giant made a huge show out of its decision on…

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Superstar cities versus everyone else is a fake problem
Superstar cities versus everyone else is a fake problem

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Sep 29, 2020

My totally subjective priors about remote work

While I do have a physical office location in downtown Chicago and generally prefer to work from it, I have always collaborated with people from multiple other states on a daily basis as part of my job, and as such, working from home doesn’t do all that much to disrupt…

Cities

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My totally subjective priors about remote work
My totally subjective priors about remote work
Cities

8 min read

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