Recently, my friend Daniel Stublen made the argument that reporters should always include the margin of error when citing polls. This led to a good discussion about what the margin of error really is, but I wanted to dive deeper into it, here.
Visualizing Two Variables of Interest The Prompt For my first #tidytuesday, I chose an old prompt. I wanted to explore USDA milk consumption data. The accompanying NPR article considers the oversupply of cheese in the US. Andrew Novakovic, an agricultural economist at Cornell University, explained that milk production has risen while consumption has fallen, so suppliers turn the milk into cheese which is less perishable.
In 2019, I hiked northbound on the Appalachian Trail, 2,192 from Georgia to Maine. It took 170 days. After I finished, I went through my journal and guidebook to create a spreadsheet with each day’s mileage, location, sleep site, and other notes.