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Devon D Harris posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
Along with everyone else, I agree that bias is a topic that I stuck with me from the lectures. Biases are everywhere and we cannot escape them for as long as we are living, but it’s biases that can lead to misleading or irrelevant information. For someone who is always on the move or always trying to look for new restaurants or articles to read I…[Read more]
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Devon D Harris posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
I found a dataset that contained all the arrival times of every single SEPTA regional rail from 2009-present. I found this dataset on opendataphilly. This was quite interesting to me, because as a commuter to a big university I rely on trains and public transportation a lot to get to school everyday so knowing which trains come late frequently is…[Read more]
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Devon D Harris posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-math-and-not-a-telescope-may-have-found-a-new-planet/
Two scientists made headlines after having reason to think they have evidence of a possible new planet. This “Planet Nine” is 5x the mass of Earth and in the densest part of the galaxy outside of the solar system. They believe this to be possible after…[Read more]