Dairy Queen Deserts in Minnesota

Minnesota is the state with the most Dairy Queen locations per person [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Queen#cite_note-11]. What's the farthest you'd ever have to drive to reach a DQ in Minnesota? How far would you have to go to get your birthday…

Tidy Text Mining Beer Reviews

Craft beer is a huge market. Beer reviews from fellow beer drinkers help customers navigate it. From 2013 to 2016, the craft beer industry nearly doubled in value from $14.3 [https://www.brewersassociation.org/press-releases/2013-craft-beer-data-infographic/] to $23.5 billion [https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics/national-beer-sales-production-data/] . The number of…

Less Than 10% of State Troopers are Women

Women make up just 39% of speaking roles on television [http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/files/2015-16-Boxed-In-Report.pdf] and 32% in movies [http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016-Its-a-Mans-Celluloid-World-Report.pdf] , according to recently released research [http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/research/] by the San Diego State University's Center…

Actors and Movies with the Most Dialogue

Which movies and characters have the most dialogue? Last April, Polygraph complied and analyzed 2,000 screenplays to study gender in film dialogue [http://polygraph.cool/films/]. This analysis uses their summary dataset [https://github.com/matthewfdaniels/scripts/] (for each movie: its characters, the number of words they spoke, their…

Do Write-In Votes Matter?

Write-in votes are a uniquely American tradition: nowhere else in the world can you cast a vote for a candidate not included on the ballot. With two of the least popular candidates ever [http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/31/poll-clinton-trump-most-unfavorable-candidates-ever/89644296/] running for president, Americans…