Studying The Show About Nothing

I have watched and re-watched Seinfeld over and over for the last 6–7 years now and it remains, till date, one of my most favorite shows. For a show that claims to be about nothing, it has certainly managed to fill up nine seasons worth of content, all with seemingly no plot. The show, if you’re unfamiliar with it, traces the day-to-day lives of (mainly) 4 quite unremarkable people — Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Cosmo Kramer and Elaine Benes. These 4, along with plenty of other side characters and guest stars engage in what seems to be a series of meaningless conversations and activities, which somehow all come together towards the end of the duration of each episode. ...

February 12, 2018 · 6 min · Abhiram R

Data Visualization Exp2

Alright. Round 2 . FIGHT! So, the last time, I figured out, unintentionally, at what times of the day most of my posts happened. This time, I again unintentionally got results different from what I set out to do — I’ll get to this eventually I guess, but for now, the objective is obtaining a measure of the number of posts I make per day and thereby see if I can figure out which days of the week have been the most (least?) productive. Of course, this is still a step away from my eventual goal (hopefully Experiment 3 should sort it out). Let’s get to the methodology — ...

November 27, 2017 · 8 min · Abhiram R

Data Visualization Exp1

Hours of max FB Usage — I originally intended to do something else, but ended up doing this instead — Figuring out at what hours during the day I’ve been most active on Facebook — outliers included. How? Downloaded my entire Facebook data - This can be done using the Facebook APIs or using the less painful way — requesting for a copy of your Facebook data as a zip file from your Settings panel. ...

September 27, 2017 · 3 min · Abhiram R