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This is about as insightful as the Ig Nobel winning papers “Boredom begets boredom” and “Whatever will bore, will bore” that methodically documented that bored teachers lead to bored students. But in the spirit of publishing all research without bias for success or novelty, let me share this obvious result. The Y-axis represents the total score of ~2,000 students on 4 graded assignments, each of ~10 marks. The X-axis represents the percent rank of engagement. The most engaged students are at 100%. The least are at 0%. ...

The most under-rated #geospatial capability is spatial joins, IMHO. It lets you draw correlations from #geodata. During the 2019 assembly elections in India, it allowed me to join voter data (by constituency) with religious population (by district) and show that BJP’s vote share increased with Muslim population, while it reduced the AIMIM-allied JD(S) vote share. That’s just the start. We can explore: Where to open new schools? Where to locate bank branches? Does wealth lead to more or less theft? Does poor health lead to more or less pharmacies? … and hundreds of other random questions. My day job doesn’t let me explore these much. I’d love to work with someone, though. ...

A question from Dorai get me thinking: does being good at maths help in programming? I don’t have a personal view. But since Reportbee has data on the Class 12 examination results for the last three years, we thought we could do a bit of analysis. Here’s the correlation of the scores of various subjects with Computer Science. Correlation Subject 0.79 CHEMISTRY 0.79 PHYSICS 0.75 ENGLISH 0.75 MATHEMATICS 0.72 LANGUAGE 0.67 BIOLOGY 0.66 ECONOMICS 0.66 COMMERCE 0.65 ACCOUNTANCY 0.56 HISTORY 0.52 GEOGRAPHY It almost breaks neatly into four groups. ...

On the IMDb top 250, you normally see a correlation between the number of votes and the rating for a movie. Better rated movies are more watched. The outliers are interesting. The movies that are popular despite not having a high rating are: The Matrix The Sixth Sense Gladiator Star Wars 3: Revenge of the Sith Pirates of the Caribbean I can understand why The Sixth Sense, Pirates of the Caribbean and especially The Matrix are on this list – geeks would have watched these and voted on IMDb, though their voting need not have been high. But why are Gladiator and Sixth Sense on that list? ...