Blog ideas
- How viral are my followers’ tweets after accounting for their total follower level?
..- use the 538 Messi graphs to show retweets vs followers at time of tweet
- Determining the Uber surcharge?
- When will a movie go out of a theater? - AKA: how to know when a movie bombs?
- Map my family’s history through web scraping
- Full text as html(http://www.afaoa.org/bk_files/Richard_Austin_MA/Bk_Richard_Austin_MA_I111.html)
- Grandpa:
- The whole lineup, honestly
- Could also trace family pattern through locations listed at their birth and death places
- Ages
- Take the WSJ story on literary word choice and replicate it for WSJ
- predict presidential approval rating / right direction/wrong track / given some set of inputs like party approval etc
Notes on blogging
- Make sure your axes are intuitive
- Pelican is a good CMS for managing markdown files