An Engineer’s Look at Local Politics – Lowell 2017 Election Data

I spend several hours most work days making spreadsheets (AKA “engineering”), so naturally when I came across Dick Howe’s post last weekend detailing the expenditures of the eighteen City Council Candidates for Lowell’s 2017 elections, I wanted to throw that sweet, sweet data into Excel.  I like taking otherwise boring data and seeing what it …

New Year, Old Blog

I’ve never been too into New Year’s Resolutions, but I have come to acknowledge that January 1st is a good opportunity to take stock of the year behind me, and see where I can make changes that I will be happy with for the next year.  2017 was a hell of a year, especially on …