Author: nickwinnenberg

  • Podcast Episode: Social Isolation Is as Dangerous as Smoking?

    Huge, huge thank you to Dr. Harry Taylor at University of Toronto for this awesome interview. There are certain claims that immediately trip my internal “citation needed”, (or as I call it, BS)alarm. This was one of them: Social isolation is as dangerous to your health as smoking cigarettes. I first ran into that line…

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  • Sea Levels and Temperatures

    I had some time during this weekend, because of the crazy amounts of snow dumped on Dayton, so I updated the Open Climate dashboard. The last experiment that we did on climate data, showed significant positive correlations between Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide emissions and the Earths Average temperature. We couldn’t reject the null…

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  • Hockey: Strong Link or Whole Chain Sport?

    I’m not a sport’s person. I’ve tried! I like going to games, and can totally get wrapped up in the excitement, but just never felt that loyalty to a team that so many fans have. My five year old just started hockey (well, skating lessons) and I thought it would be fun to “Money Ball”…

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  • Dayton Crime Data

    Outside of the 4 (okay, 5) years I lived in Athens for School, I was always a Cincinnatian. As in “Skyline Chili runs in my veins, LaRosa’s Pizza membership, Team Fiona” kind of Cincinnatian. When my wife moved to Cincinnati, I drew her a map of the city, highlighting different neighborhoods based on how safe…

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  • OpenEcon Snapshot

    For many, economics feels like an artificial invention — a moving target where the goal posts shift depending on who’s trying to win the argument. And while it’s true that the field attracts more than its fair share of snake oil, the underlying system is still rooted in real, measurable science. I built a dashboard…

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  • Climate Confirmation

    My kiddo has been obsessed with the PBS Show “Weather Hunters”, and honestly – same. I’ve learned an embarrassing amount weather and climate, like what an anemometer does (seriously, who knew that?)The producers of the show, of course, dug into a little on the changing climate – which I’ve always taken at face-value. But challenging…

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