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Economic Modeling of Apartment Listings Collected from Craigslist Housing prices remain unique among commonly traded goods and services, in that nearly no geographic competition exists. This feature is often compounded by high costs and low frequencies of transactions. Demonstrating the importance of location in urban centers, is the extreme segregation of central business districts which…

Introduction Given the volume of literature submitted to preprint servers daily, there is no feasible way for a human researcher to stay abreast of the state of a field at-large. BioRxiv, as a preprint server, exists as a public, fully transparent database of research published before peer-review. This comes with both advantages and drawbacks. For…

When you hear the words “game of chance” I doubt Candy Land is the first one that comes to mind. Still, that’s what it is. The game requires no reading, no strategy and only the most basic counting skills. No choices present themselves. In terms of games of chance, the rules are far more simple…

What can City of New-York Dog registration data tell us about neighborhood character? Inspired by the music and spirit of Jefferey Lewis I have a Dalmatian named Aesop. He’s the best. He’s a thoroughly cosmopolitan dog. He knows which coffee shops have the good treats, which schools have rabbits living in their landscaping and which…