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Nov 11, 2018
I've been helping a small team work on some willingness-to-pay analysis using double-bounded choice survey data. I'll post more about that soon, but I am writing now to talk about the double-bounded…
Nov 9, 2018
Bulletin just handed to me! Press Release The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, earned first place overall and Election Forecaster honors in the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity…
Nov 5, 2018
I am in Phoenix right now and yesterday I gave my talk here at INFORMS. I was invited to talk about blockchain by Natalie Scala and the presentation went well. Unfortunately, my…
Nov 4, 2018
Sometimes, you miss things. Back in August, I did an interview with Julie Bawden-Davis for Supermoney! on flood insurance. Click below to learn what flood insurance covers: What is Covered Under Flood…
Oct 29, 2018
Here in Maryland, we spend a lot of time talking about eutrophication in the Chesapeake Bay, but eutrophication can also be a threat to our freshwater supplies. This has most seriously affected…
Oct 25, 2018
When we put stuff into a landfill, the general expectation is that we will never have to see it again. Of course, it is not that simple. Much of the matter in…
Oct 15, 2018
The effects of changing hydrology on wetlands have caught my attention this week. When I first came to Maryland, I remember hearing there are no natural lakes, a story repeated as this…
Oct 4, 2018
Years ago, I worked for a small telecommunications company located in Rockville, called Startec Communications. Startec provided (maybe still does, who knows?) long distance services targetting the immigrant community. This was cheap…
Oct 3, 2018
There's a really neat (and short) paper by Joseph P. Wilson that was presented at Stormcon in Atlanta this year focusing on the stationarity of rainfall. If you catch the weather forecast…
Sep 17, 2018
Here in Maryland, we often think of the blue crab as our major seafood. But the best part of Maryland, if you love seafood, is its incredible variety. And more frequently, the…
Sep 9, 2018
Right now, the Mid-Atlantic is staring down Hurricane Florence. The best guess anyone has right now is that this will hit between Florida and New York...but wherever it hits, it will be…