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Mapping $63 Billion of Commercial Loans in Peoria County, Illinois

A national credit union hired me to collect 7,534 commercial loan contracts issued between 2007 and 2017. Here they are on a map. Note: this data was sourced from public records. To learn more see how I built this. Each parcel is color coded according to the size of

The Quest to Map Over $63 Billion of Commercial Loans in Peoria County

Three years ago a national credit union hired me to collect some "hard-to-reach public data." Specifically, they wanted to mass-gather Peoria and surrounding county’s public records on commercial real estate to learn details about potential customers that would help them sell loans. Here is the painful true

Calculate the Probability of a Flush in Poker using Math & Monte Carlo

Explore combinations and simulations.

My Grandma Can Trade Better Than you... She's dead

Profitable investing is easy enough a dead person could do it.

Lies & Co.

Ever heard of a game called Two Truths and a Lie? That’s basically this blog column except we’ll tell as many truths as we want.

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