By Connor Zahler MORNING COFFEE Remember that time when your friend who sleeps the least kept talking about a cool new drink at Panera? Of course you do! That drink, Panera’s own Charged Lemonade, has been in the news again after being linked to two deaths. You see, 30 ounces of Charged Lemonade contains 237mg…
Category: Beyond QMSS
Data Detectives: Are Detroit Spots Cursed?
By Connor Zahler Around most sports towns, the coming of a new season heralds joy and optimism. Maybe this year will be the year! And the 2023-2024 Season has given Detroit fans some much-needed, long-awaited, success and excitement. We all know the Lions gave us one for the ages this year, even if they did…
A QUANTITATIVE LOOK AT THE SURPRISING UPRISING OF CLOTHING BRANDS
By Carolina Mondragon-Tadiotto When you step into your closet, what is it that you see? Chances are you own various pieces that are “trendy” from brands that hit the spotlight over the past few yeiars. I know I own my fair share of North Face puffer jackets and high top platform Converse. How often, though,…
DATA DETECTIVES: WHAT’S UP WITH ODD HYPE SONGS?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a perennial powerhouse comes together around a hit about observing a former partner with a new lover. What gives?
STILL HERE: A QUANTITATIVE LOOK AT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY
October 9th commemorates Indigenous People’s Day, a holiday meant to celebrate the histories and people that are so often forgotten. Although this is just a student-run blog on quantitative methods, we can play a small part in talking about them.
EVEN MORE PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR QMSS FANS
Written by Connor Zahler To get you through the long summer months, we’ve prepared this list of podcast recommendations for you. A note: the views and ideas expressed in any of these shows are not those of the author, QMSS, or the University of Michigan. This is not an endorsement of everything in all of…
CELEBRATING LGBTQIA2S+ VOICES IN DATA SCIENCE
Image created with the help of DALL-E 2 Editor’s Note: This article uses the terms “LGBTQIA2S+” and “Queer” interchangeably to refer to the same community of people, as Michigan’s Spectrum Center does. QMSS acknowledges that terms like “Queer” have contentious histories and usages. These terms are absolutely not meant as a reflection of discrimination or…
QMovie Reviews: Transformers: Age of Extinction
Written by Connor Zahler MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE? As a child, I had two paramount obsessions: Star Wars and Transformers. There’s just something about space wizards and robot dinosaurs that can truly capture a young mind. Of course, a big part of it manifested in watching the Transformers movies. Directed (mostly) by Michael Bay,…
A Quantitative Look at the 2023 Oscars
Written by Connor Zahler: The Academy Awards, more popularly known as the Oscars, celebrate the year in movies and give recognition to the most outstanding films (and aspects of films) of the year. While they have faced a lot of very fair criticism, most notably regarding a lack of diversity, many stars and regular viewers…
QMovie Reviews: Moneyball
Written by Connor Zahler: Introduction Writing for the QMSS student blog has granted me a lot of opportunities. One drawback, though, is that it has made me so analytically savvy that it can be hard to turn off QMSS-vision. Case in point: my friends and I were having a good old-fashioned movie night the other…