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Everyone’s Mad at Airbnb. This Map Explains What We Should Blame Instead.
The real reason Airbnb clusters where it does - and 1,500 listings you can book guilt-free if the policymakers won't listen.
Jan 5
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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how…
Dec 9, 2025
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AI Boom or Bubble? Introducing the Hype-to-Investment Ratio
A data-driven verdict on whether we’re living through a genuine AI boom or an over-inflated bubble - from capex and chips to markets, adoption, and a…
Nov 27, 2025
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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
Dec 9, 2025
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The quiet collapse of surveys: fewer humans (and more AI agents) are answering survey questions
May 19, 2025
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“We All Ended Up in Islington”: The Hidden Multi-Dimensionality of UK Segregation
Oct 27, 2025
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How Hard Can Quant Trading Really Be? I Tried It to Find Out.
Nov 13, 2025
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The postdoc 'big mac plus' index
Dec 10, 2024
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The Quiet Collapse of Surveys Part II: adding some nuances
Jun 8, 2025
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The Worlds "Most Independent" Central Bank... or Just Pretending?
How null results didn’t kill my project - they rewrote it. They revealed a new, measurable form of responsiveness inside the most secretive central bank…
Nov 20, 2025
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What drives the uneven geography of development? Or 'why some towns always win'
We show that which places get funding and which miss out depends on whether local governments learn from neighbors, build on past experience, and…
Nov 16, 2025
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How Hard Can Quant Trading Really Be? I Tried It to Find Out.
Hedge funds have armies of PhDs, Bloomberg terminals, and million-dollar data feeds. I have Python open in VS Code - and a PhD in political economy. How…
Nov 13, 2025
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“We All Ended Up in Islington”: The Hidden Multi-Dimensionality of UK Segregation
This post introduces a new Composite Segregation Index combining ethnicity, class, and education to capture spatial sorting - and shows why UK's census…
Oct 27, 2025
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The UK’s Local Inequality Problem: Big Debates, Bad Data
We talk endlessly about inequality, but the tools and data are fragile and misleading. Good local income data is missing - yet house price proxies…
Sep 19, 2025
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What the Final Score Didn’t Tell You: The 2025 Women’s Final in Football Analytics
The scoreboard crowned a champion, but the numbers told a different story. This is the 2025 Women’s Football Final through the lens of football…
Aug 15, 2025
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Provisional Findings: a Lower Voting Age Would Hand Labour a Quiet Edge
Britain’s teenage electorate expansion looks trivial and insignificant at first glance, but a quick test building on the latest YouGov MRP suggests…
Jul 25, 2025
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