On Tuesday, I went to a talk by local author Pat Farabaugh on his book Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown.  He gave a review of the 3 major floods in Johnstown’s history and why the steel mills pulled out of Johnstown a few years after the 1977 flood.  In the interest […]

Last Tuesday I was a panelist on a webinar explaining the coronavirus numbers in Cambria County.  Other panelists were Jill Henning, Biology Professor at Pitt-Johnstown and Tulsi Shrivastava, a local data scientist.  You can view the slides for the presentation below.  It lasts for 40 minutes.  As of that panel, the county ranked 7th in […]

Four years ago I looked at local and national candidates’ Facebook and Twitter followings and how they corresponded to their election results.  Then, the candidate’s Facebook followings predicted the winner in 8 of 9 races I looked at.  In 2018, Facebook followings only predicted the winner in 5 out of the 9 races I looked […]

Joe Biden had an impressive win in South Carolina yesterday.  The real test for the seven remaining candidates is Super Tuesday in two days with 14 states and two territories voting.  This gives a total of 1,242 pledged delegates at stake or 32% of the total pledged delegates.  I thought I would take a look […]

With the primary season heating up I thought I would give an update to the state of the twitter and Facebook primaries for the presidential candidates.  Above is a scatter plot showing the Twitter Followings of the candidates as of Wednesday, Jan 8 on the x axis and the January Real Clear Politics national poll […]

In a follow up to my posts on social media and the upcoming elections I came across this interview on Democracy Now! with Roger McNamee.  He is an early mentor and investor of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.  He now says the company is a threat to US Democracy.  In the clip below he talks about […]

I have been away for a while being swamped with teaching and working.  I finally have time to put a post together.  I though I would follow up my post on the 2020 Facebook Primary by looking at changes in the Twitter followings of the candidates and their poll averages.   I looked at their twitter […]

The 9th anniversary of CSI without Dead Bodies is upon us/me.  It has been a hectic year where I purchased a domain name for this blog.  The number of users per month for the last year when the domain name was bought are summarized in the blue line in the graph below.  The number of […]

Four years ago I showed that a candidate’s following on Facebook predicted their support in the polls at this point four years ago.  It predicted 70.6% of the variability for Republicans and 75.6% of it for Democrats.  I thought I would lake a look at how the candidates fare with Facebook and Twitter in the Democratic […]

Three weeks ago a member of a wrtiers group on Facebook posted this image asking “Who (in this group) is a blogger?”  The post received over 630 comments with 206 unique blogs listed.  I thought I would take a look at the blogs listed to see what kind of platforms that they used (WordPress vs. […]