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Sep 3, 2016
On Thursday night, Mary Catherine Cochran, executive director of the Patapsco Heritage Greenway, asked some very insightful questions about my analysis of flooding in Ellicott City: ::embed{href="https://www.facebook.com/howardjp/posts/601279356432"} These questions are worth going…
Sep 2, 2016
Last night, Mary Catherine Cochran, executive director of the Patapsco Heritage Greenway, asked some very insightful questions about my analysis of flooding in Ellicott City: ::embed{href="https://www.facebook.com/howardjp/posts/601279356432"} These questions are worth going into…
Aug 30, 2016
Everyone has been posting their first day of school pictures this week and I am reminded of a different first day of school. Twenty years ago, I took a dive into the…
Aug 22, 2016
Chase and I have started playing the Pokémon Trading Card Game, a lot. Perhaps obviously, this comes from the confluence of two events. First, in July, we started playing Pokémon GO. Second,…
Aug 17, 2016
This morning, I was walking to the office and trying to catch a caterpie) when I thought to tweet, Amazed the GPS network hasn't been crushed under the load of PokemonGo users!…
Aug 15, 2016
Bill Marcus writes about the intersection between deep analytics and big data in HPE Insights : [T]he scale of an organization and its data is key to how much the process will…
Aug 9, 2016
This time, the flood hit close to home, literally. Over the last week, Ellicott City has responded after a very bad storm dropped nearly six inches of rain in only two hours.…
Aug 1, 2016
I am sitting in a session at JSM 2016, and will be presenting my talk tomorrow. While this is pure public economics and applicable to almost any benefit-cost analysis, this talk grew…
Jul 29, 2016
For an article on Oyster.com, Margot Bigg writes about how to respond in an earthquake or a tsunami. Learn my recommendations there: ::embed{href="https://www.oyster.com/articles/54469-what-its-like-to-evacuate-for-a-tsunami/"} Remember, especially in an earthquake, the folk wisdom of…
Jul 28, 2016
The Howard County government has recently proposed a tax-incremental financing (TIF) plan that would pay for certain amenities in downtown Columbia, including a parking garage. As usual, there are a great deal…
Jul 25, 2016
David Smith and I are now talking to each other in blog posts and it is only a little weird. Also, I've been traveling and am a bit behind. In a comment…