Mitt Romney becoming the first Senator in the President’s party to vote to convict on one of the charges in Trump’s impeachment trial did raise some eyebrows.  It may not be as surprising given that he and Trump have butted heads.  However other Republicans who have butted heads, with Trump in the past, such as […]

  I have been busy last week working on the analysis of climate data and air quality data for Utah in 2013 for the Global Data Competition.  Above is the document I submitted and my team put together in this graphical display (Thank you Jim, Nikki, Jackson, and Nimesh),   The first page in the embed […]

Looking at Livescience.com yesterday I came across this map of the most distinctive causes of death.  Distinctive means that the mortality rate is the highest above the national rate among 110 causes of death for that state.  A distinctive cause of death can be a rare cause of death. For Pennsylvania the highest rate was […]

Having been in Utah for one month, I thought I would give my readers a brief introduction to the state.  I haven’t seen the arch above it’s in the South of Utah.  I have seen plenty of views like the one on the left from where I work at the VA in Salt Lake City. […]

I have just relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah for a job.  I’ve decided to look at how the state differs from my former state Pennsylvania.  The graph above shows the trends for both states and the US from 2006 to 2014 (the method they used to collect the data changed in 2008 which is […]