Corey

2 movie trends someone should write about

film

lists

Watching movies made since the 1930s and reading tons about 20th century American history have let me notice some trends that I don’t fully understand. I’d like to write…

The flow state in running and coding

data

Trail running and code writing share a concept of the flow state. Many other crafts share this concept, but I both run and code so I’ll keep the focus here for today. The…

A PySpark-native way to do recursion

Part 2: Solutions

data

spark

python

In my last post, I described an example of recursive algorithms, the Fibonacci sequence, and showed that it can’t be solved with classic SQL tools like window functions. In…

A PySpark-native way to do recursion

Part 1: the Problem

data

spark

python

I find lots of situations in my work where recursion in Spark dataframes would be useful. Recently, I needed to define a column with values that were based on each following…

How I work remotely

tech

remote work

When I landed my job at Kin + Carta, I invested in some creature comforts for remote work. At Yale, I kept hoping the office was a few elusive weeks away, and that it wasn’t…

Farmington Canal Trail Bike Century

fitness

cycling

new haven

bucket list

I learned to ride a bike just before I moved to New Haven. Living in a city, abandoning my boring, dangerous, radio-less car seemed like a great statement to make about…

Tip the valet!

code bits

R

Valet, the Bank of Canada’s API, did not have an R client when the YPFS was studying its COVID work, and I pretty much stick to R. So, to demonstrate that I could build a…

YPFS Citation Style Language

open data

YPFS

code bits

When I started at YPFS, we did all COVID all the time. I’d wake up, get paid to doomscroll, and pump out some blogs about what was happening. When we reverted to…

Morning bike ride at East Rock Park

life

Spring returned to New Haven on Thursday! A lot evaporated overnight as temperatures rose, and I was fortunate to snap these photos.

How long do actors have left?

film

culture

political economy

predictions

My friend Avital wrote a great essay last year about an Instagram influencer. The publication she released it has, unfortunately, flopped, but I will give the gist. Lil…

Small economies face big mobile payments

Zimbabwe and Venezuela present different perspectives on forced dollarization

analysis

political economy

Bloomberg Businessweek published an article this week on the rise of mobile payments provider Zelle in Venezuela, where inflation has pushed the price of a café con leche to…

Reserve liquidity facilities shift from advanced economies to emerging markets

analysis

YPFS

political economy

This post was originally published on the YPFS Systemic Risk blog

Debt Mounts for US Retail and Lodging Mortgagors

analysis

political economy

YPFS

This post was originally published on the YPFS Systemic Risk blog

Federal Reserve further expands access to Municipal Liquidity Facility

analysis

political economy

YPFS

This post was originally published on the YPFS Systemic Risk blog

David Lynch is Toying With Us

film

analysis

I write this post while watching Rabbits, a work of exceptional mystery but unexceptional tension. Lynch casts two regulars—Laura Harring and Naomi Watts—opposite one…

Just Mercy – a Legal Drama Adaptation That Fails to Do Justice to a Compelling Memoir

Lack of restraint renders this film adaptation of a nuanced tale about injustice into an overbearing platitude.

film

analysis

Edit 1/20/2020: check out this article at Pop Culture Bento!

Jojo Rabbit Explores Universal Notions of Morality through a Childlike Perspective

Taika Waititi delivers laughs, tears, and smiles through sharp writing, vivid sets, and great performances.

film

analysis

Edit 11/30/2019: check this article out at Pop Culture Bento!

American Heartbreak

culture

analysis

I am the American heartbreak–

3 Things I Learned from my Marathon

fitness

Let me avoid—for all our sakes—transforming my blog into a clichéd, over-exposed photo essay of my personal struggle running. That being said, I was struck, as it was…

Parasite Refreshes Horror with a Hefty Dose of Social Realism

Bong Joon-ho’s terrors proceed from the scraps discarded by the super-rich.

analysis

film

Edit 11/15/2019: check this article out at Pop Culture Bento!

20 Miles Later

analysis

fitness

In 4 weeks, I’ll toe the line at the VCU Health ¹ Richmond Marathon. This last month has seen me run consistently farther than I ever had before, so I’ve had to find new…

Distortion in Vertigo (1958)

The cinematography that makes Hitchcock’s masterpiece unsettle

film

analysis

Edit 10/20/2019: check this article out at Pop Culture Bento!

Federal Register API

R

open data

I created an R client to fetch data from the Federal Register, replacing an R package that had not been updated for years. It was my first foray into APIs.