Jonathan DobresPhD
I’m a senior data scientist at Sonos, formerly a research scientist at the MIT AgeLab. Given the recent career change, my about page is a work in progress. I design, code, and write this entire website.
My old-school blog currently focuses on coding, statistics, links of interest, and other musings. I've been writing on the internet since the ‘90s.
I am the author of 22 scientific publications, 15 white papers, 3 popular press articles, and 29 conference presentations. Here’s my favorite.
“Recent” Updates
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Remembering Professor David I. Mostofsky
Dec. 27 2021A personal remembrance of a good man.
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shutter bugged
Sep. 22 2019With the iPhone 11, Apple makes a change that permanently ruins its camera.
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Autumn at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Nov. 4 2018Gorgeous autumn colors at one of New England’s historic sites.
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algorithmic art: random circle packing
Apr. 1 2018Packing a canvas with non-overlapping circles is easy, until it isn’t. Herein, we learn the difference between an easy solution and a fast solution.
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compound inequalities in R
Feb. 10 2018It’s surprisingly easy to create a set of custom comparison operators that mimic compound inequality formulas, which can potentially save you some typing and make your code more readable. Let’s have a look at the R features that make this possible.
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the pleasures and pitfalls of data visualization with maps
Sep. 7 2015Maps make for some fun data visualizations, but should be used with care. Here I investigate several different ways of mapping and visualizing the same dataset.