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  <title>Democracy for Realists</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[ Rethinking how democracy actually works ]]></description>
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  <title>Is Online Persuasion Possible?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[ Three suggestions for being persuasive online ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>The Perpetual Myth of Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[ Waste, Fraud, and Abuse is a slogan used to hide the basic tradeoff that cutting spending requires cutting services. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>End Exclusionary Zoning</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[ Over half of Louisville’s land is reserved for large single family dwellings. Only 6 percent is zoned for multi-family use. ]]></description>
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  <category>Poverty</category>
  <category>Housing</category>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Simpson’s Paradox</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[ Simpson’s Paradox illustrated with Penguins ]]></description>
  <category>Python</category>
  <category>Causal Inference</category>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Mapping Census Data with Python</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[ A tutorial on how to make maps by pulling Census data into Python ]]></description>
  <category>Python</category>
  <category>Census</category>
  <category>GeoPandas</category>
  <category>Kentucky</category>
  <category>Louisville</category>
  <category>Internet</category>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Partitioned Regression with Palmer Penguins and Scikit-Learn</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[ Using partitioned regression to gain a better understanding of how linear regression works. ]]></description>
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  <title>Think before adding more variables to that analysis</title>
  <link>https://www.natekratzer.com/posts/collider_bias/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ An introduction to thinking about causal models for data analysis. The purpose is to demonstrate that the popular approach of simply gathering as much data as you can and controlling for it via regression or other methods is not a good one, and is actively misleading in many cases. We should instead carefully think about plausible causal models using tools like diagrams (directed acyclic graphs, or DAGs) and then do data analysis in accordance with those models. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Racing Louisville in their first NWSL season</title>
  <link>https://www.natekratzer.com/posts/racing_lou_season1/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ A quick look back at how Racing Louisville played in their first season in the NWSL ]]></description>
  <category>Python</category>
  <category>Sports</category>
  <category>Data Viz</category>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>How to Use Census Microdata to Analyze High Speed Internet in Kentucky</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[ This post is a start to finish descriptive analysis of high speed internet access in Kentucky, including tables, graphs, and maps. All of the detail of cleaning the data and iterating while exploring the data is included. This makes for a rather lengthy post, but it also makes it relatively unique in including all of those steps. We go through five attempts at making a table of high speed internet before finally getting it right! There’s quite a bit of cleaning work and then also a detour into calculating standard errors via bootstrap so we can correctly display uncertainty in our visuals. ]]></description>
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