Webinometry

The NBA’s Game of Thrones

Rathan Haran — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:06:09 +0000

For all that everyone has said about Mark Cuban, I have to respect that he made the move to take a terrible franchise and turn them around into world champions. To make it even sweeter, it was with HIS superstar Dirk Nowitzki, and it was against the 2 and a Half Men ‘Super Team’ [...]

Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife, Hide Your 401K

Rathan Haran — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:43:18 +0000

My buddy Justin posted an interesting chart recently about the correlation between quantitative easing (what the blue shirt crew calls QE, QE2, and possibly QE3) and commodity prices (notice the gas pump recently?). It reminded me of a posting I drafted to write in January, right smack in the middle of the Fed’s 2nd [...]

“So this (Fantasy Baseball) team is perfect”

Rathan Haran — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:50:02 +0000

It’s almost fantasy baseball time again and although my slow starting roster made a respectable run to finish in 4th, I didn’t re-capture the title which I won in 2008. The consolation prize is that our commissioner, Hans Ruddilicious, for the 9th straight season did not win a title, settling for his record breaking/setting fourth [...]

Online Communities according to xkcd

Rathan Haran — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:39:49 +0000

A few highlights from this map: 1. Blatherskite River – “Blathering Blatherskite” – Fenton Crackshell 2. Former Site for Adult Services on Craigslist Island 3. Kayne’s Isle of Sadness 4. Hashtag Games Whose Popularity Confuses and Depresses You If you are looking for Webinometry on this map, it was sunk somewhere just south of Miscellaneous Blogs [...]

Retire Sooner by Ignoring Financial Advisors

Rathan Haran — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:06:46 +0000

The recent market activity and what we saw in September 08 and March 09 is why people should not listen to any ‘investment professional’ who tells you to invest based on how old you are. It’s ridiculous to apply the “average” growth rate of the market without considering where in the market cycle you are [...]

Dean’s List Released

Rathan Haran — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:11:27 +0000

We released a pretty cool trivia application, called the Dean’s List Trivia Game, which is available in the Android Market. I had a lot of fun working on this project, and a lot of help as well, and it came together pretty nicely when it was all said and done. The crazy part about building this [...]

How Bad is my Fantasy Baseball Team?

Rathan Haran — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:54:26 +0000

I’m sitting in 9th place, 67 whopping points behind the league leader after the first month of the baseball season. That’s pretty awful. The question is, do I have any hope? I decided to take a statistical approach to see if I should jump ship on my team, or try to hold through this miserable [...]

We Are The World Part 2

Rathan Haran — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:42:13 +0000

I’m not really sure how I feel about this. For a pretty powerful and inspiring song, I’m not sure it really needed a remake, especially since it seemed a little B+ in the star power department. I guess someone was compelled to do this and the earthquake in Haiti coupled with the 25th anniversary of [...]

How Mint.com Can Fix The Banking Industry

Rathan Haran — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:18:14 +0000

So you are unemployed, with no job prospects in sight and a healthy mortgage and family to worry about. You are not alone as a staggering 17% of Americans are currently out of work (sorry, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, this is a more realistic vision of the jobless rate, not the 10% that you [...]

Stats in Sociology – Not Boring Version

Rathan Haran — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:23:54 +0000

Hans Rosling shows you how to to make stats cool again. Visualization of data is a great learning tool, and creating ways to do this will be of great value to those with less mathematical sophistication than others. The insights that Hans Rosling was able to illustrate in this presentation were pretty amazing as well, and [...]