Our film club met last night to discuss Singing in the Rain. I, among other film club members, am not a fan of musicals (though I enjoyed this film as a whole). In preparing questions for our discussion, I stumbled upon the concept of diagetic music, which is music that appears in the context of … Continue reading Diagetic Music in Singing in the Rain →

How I got to now I have spent a decade-plus of working with school data, despite no formal training in the technology of data analysis. I keep running into the same problem: inconsistent name spellings. So many of our data sets lack a unique identifier and rely on student names to serve in this role. … Continue reading Holy Crap, Levenshtein Distance Exists →