Infographic: Quantum supremacy
The man in the machine
Programmed by humans, algorithms begin with a logic tree specifying every facet of the code’s behavior from content prioritization to blacklisting. With Google’s near monopoly, what hangs in the...
Infographic: The ensuing economic battle
3 projections for the future
Prior to the COVID-19, the U.S. was in an historic economic expansion. Without this boom preceding the crisis, life for Americans would likely have been much worse. It stands to...
Infographic: The Big Chill
Thawing America’s unchosen
Time will tell the full effect the C19 shutdown will have on the American economy. Here are the signals thus far.
NYC vacancies nearly triple
Apartment vacancies jumped from 1,750 during the last week...
Infographic: Social credit scores in America?
Social credit will shift law in the west “from constitution to analytics and algorithm'
—Penn State professor
Will AI-driven social scores supplant the constitution? Professor Larry Backer of Penn State University writes in a 2018 paper...
Infographic: Rent control – Getting the squeeze for poor housing policy and stifling regulation
5%+rate of inflation
California state legislators have passed AB 1482 sponsored by Assemblyman David Chiu (d)—San Francisco. The bill limits annual rent increases that commercial single-family homes and apartment landlords may implement to 5% plus...
Infographic: Everyone is essential
UPDATED: April 30, 2020
30+ million unemployed
Breaking the previous record of 695,000 from 1982. Not counted are part-time, self—employed and gig workers who have also lost their livelihoods.
50 million deaths from Spanish Flu 1918-1919
234 thousand...
Infographic: C19 just the facts
Real guarantee: No models were used in the production of this report.
50% of those who contract the coronavirus are asymptomatic
80% of all coronavirus cases are mild according to the most recent studies...
Infographic: Renter nation
12.3 percent of millennial renters plan to always rent—up from 10.7 percent nationally year-over-year.
9.8 percent of the U.S. population moved in the past year—the smallest number since 1948.
17 percent wanted a...
ISAs set to transform the labor market
Income share agreement (ISAs) fund education. Upon completion, learners pay a percentage of their salary for a term.
Lenders correlate interest rate and pay-back period with borrower’s potential career outcome.
This may mean varying tuitions for...
Infographic: Let my workers go
The release of America
As Americans fights to return to work and businesses begin to re-open, a funny thing is happening. Nothing.
0 increase in C19 cases in places restrictions were lifted People are getting back...
Infographic: Unsustainable California
5 reasons California is unsustainable in its current state
1. Rent control
Several rent control bills failed to make it through the California Senate. AB 1482 (anti-rent gouging bill) did clear the Senate judiciary committee. If...
Infographic: The business of space and stuff
Apartment operators lease livable space. Some of that space houses residents. But occupancy also means sheltering a resident’s stuff. And renters have a lot of stuff. Like an average of 300,000 items per person....
The vanishing apartment
The affordability crisis is creeping up into middle-income households according to Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ 2020 report, America’s Rental Housing.
48% of renter households are considered cost-burdened. What does this mean? 21 million...
Infographic: California’s circular housing crisis
"Get me a good package on rent stability this year and I will sign it," Newsom said in his State of the State address in February. This wouldn't be the first time the state...
Infographic: 21 biases that derail critical thought
Math is perfect. The application of math, however, is contextual. Data science involves human logic. The best data science comes from limited human interaction. Still, data scientists must extrapolate meaning from data in order...
