Data-Focused Articles
UPDATE: City Comparisons: Charlotte vs. Atlanta
I’m not a fan of online ‘city vs city’ threads. They can be brutal exchanges where the reader won’t get much hard information about the cities in the comparison battle. They’d get a bunch of opinions about the quality of life, how many amenities this city has over...
Skip the Data Science Bootcamp and Create Your Own
If you are 'allergic' to steep education costs and scary debt, read on I got interested in data science a couple of years ago. I’d been working in the marketing department of a real estate company, and discovered (or I should say, rediscovered), my love for numbers,...
City Comparisons: Atlanta vs. Houston
Battle for King of the South. Atlanta vs. Houston Although Atlanta and Houston are not rivals like Atlanta and Charlotte, or Houston and Dallas, they still draw comparisons because they are regional powerhouses. Although on paper, the city of Houston dominates Atlanta...
Why this Majority-Minority Community Lack Retail & Restaurant Diversity?
Photo credit: Eater Atlanta Despite comparable or higher median income and traffic counts to other Atlanta suburban areas, diverse retail and entertainment venues shun southern DeKalb Research Inspired by Hunger This article was originally written in 2015 after my...
How Different is the Opioid Crisis from the Crack Epidemic?
Several years ago, Prince was found dead in an elevator in his Paisley Park home/studio. The cause of death was found to be opioid overdose-specifically fentanyl. As fans debated how true this was or floated various conspiracy theories behind the death of this...
Comparing Metro Atlanta School Districts
It's not about the percentage of kids on free or reduced lunch School quality has been a big topic for parents when looking at neighborhoods for decades. While most agree that school quality metrics involve test scores, graduation rates, and parental involvement,...
Should General Motors Sunset Buick and GMC?
Streamlining is in order? I believe General Motors (GM) should go on a diet, a major diet. Even having four brands, this is too many. In case you’re wondering if this is an anti-GM article, it's not. Growing up, I was a GM fanboy and learned as much as I could about...
Unequal Development: How Does North and South Decatur Differ?
‘We Full’ No matter where you go in metro Atlanta, you’ll see signs of a fast-growing metro area: worsening traffic, new construction, and schools bursting at the seams. Many Atlantans share a meme with bad traffic and the caption “We Full”. Indeed, the city of...
What if All Auto Brands were Made in the Same Factory?
In the past decade, we’ve seen the death of General Motors divisions Oldsmobile and Pontiac, Chrysler’s division, Plymouth and Ford’s Mercury. Within those brands were iconic cars such as the Cutlass Supreme, Firebird, and Barracuda. In a world where auto sales are...
This is Love and Marriage in America Today
The institution of marriage predates recorded history and has changed much throughout its history. The love, sex, monogamy, and attraction components were not as much a part of marriage until much later. Starting as a way to strengthen family social and business bonds...
How Auto Dealerships Might Address the Way Consumers Get Around in the Future
A Brief History of the Personal Automobile Although Americans soon dominated the automobile industry starting over a century ago, the automobile was born in France and Germany in the late nineteenth century. Karl Benz, Nicolaus Otto, Gottlieb Daimler, and Emile...
City Comparisons: Atlanta vs. New York City
Real data with a little fantasy thrown in for good measure Atlanta vs. New York City For a long time, many have compared Atlanta and New York City. Why, I don’t know. But I’ve heard many refer to Atlanta as “the New York of the South”. One of the many nicknames...