In 2018, prior to the outset of the new Governor Mike Dunleavy administration, I wanted to see how the oil markets had been for each of Alaska’s governors on a relative basis. We were ~four years into cheap oil. I indexed the price of oil (monthly data) to their first day in office and saw who took the elevator up and who rode it down. So I made this plot:
There’s no axis label or …
**TL:DR, I made an rmarkdown site tracking Alaska’s early and mail vote as ballots arrived each day in October/November 2020.
Alaskans voted by mail in record numbers during the 2020/pandemic general election. In mid-October after I mailed in my ballot, I started poking around the Alaska Division of Elections website to see if they had any reports on the incoming ballots. I found a daily …
As part of a test and trace COVID-19 strategy, the Municipality of Anchorage set up a system of ~six COVID-19 testing sites in 2020 to give residents access to free and safe testing. In my work for the Anchorage Innovation Team, I worked with public health officials to help people get access to this testing.
**TL:DR, we made a lightwight, mobile-first website to connect people to free COVID-19 …
The 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race will be remembered as the year the coronavirus upended the final days of the race and saw checkpoints lock down as the race finished in Nome. But it will also go down as of the most unforgiving for mushers: of the 57 mushers who began the race in Willow, 22 scratched and went home early.
2020’s scratch rate of 38.5% ranks fourth highest in 48 years of …
The 2019 fire season has been destructive and long-lasting. More than 2.5 million acres have been burned across 707 fires as of September 9, 2019, according to the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center .
Below are videos showing the mapped fire perimeters growth over the course of the summer (until the end of August).
Statewide Fires
Swan Lake Fire
The Swan Lake fire has burned since …
