http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/sean-carmody/ Sean Carmody writes the blog A Stubborn Mule’s Perspective which explores subjects ranging from economics to music, politics to music or whatever is occupying is mind at the time. The blog reflects these and other interests, but of late has been developing a particular focus on data visualization: it is full of graphs of all shapes, sizes and styles. The focus on data reflects Sean’s background as he spent many years studying mathematics (of the “pure” variety). Eventually, when it become hard to justify the life of the perpetual student, Sean found gainful employments in the financial markets, working for banks and fund managers as well a stint with a small risk management consulting firm. A committed believer in web 2.0, when Sean is not working or writing his blog, he is likely to be using Twitter http://twitter.com/seancarmody. It is possible that he may occasionally send tweets when at work or writing the blog. en Copyright 2013 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/mathematicians-and-the-bell-hop/ There is an old mathematical puzzle about three mathematicians and a bell-hop which is a good lesson in how numbers can be used to deceive as well as inform. Three mathematicians travelling to a conference out of town decide to save money by sharing a room (clearly these mathematicians are academics rather than mathematicians working on exotic products for investment banks). At the front desk, they pay $300 for the night for their room. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sean Carmody) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/mathematicians-and-the-bell-hop/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/mathematicians-and-the-bell-hop/#item1628 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:35:55 +0000 Sean Carmody | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-graphic-look-at-kevin-rudd-speeches-this-year/ Last week, Politico published an analysis of Barack Obama’s language. The words he used most often were “America”, “Health” and “Economy” (Politico included “American” in the count along with “America”). This prompts the obvious question: what are the favourite words of our own Kevin Rudd? Fortunately, the prime minster’s website publishes transcripts of all Kevin’s public utterances (although this does not include his speeches in parliament). There is a lot there and I had some help assembling over 400 pages of text constituting Kevin Rudd’s speeches from 2009. And above is what it looks like as a word cloud. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sean Carmody) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-graphic-look-at-kevin-rudd-speeches-this-year/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-graphic-look-at-kevin-rudd-speeches-this-year/#item949 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:30:37 +0000 Sean Carmody | Author bios | The Punch