I was driving down the Saw Mill River Parkway the other day.  I know I was living to NY Public Radio but I don’t remember which program was on.  For what it’s worth I will say that I did search around on NPR‘s website and WNYC’s website – all to no avail.  What I heard on the program was a woman discussing how she’d used  a publicly available dataset containing nationwide menu data and used it, and a python script to build a tool which dynamically maps the cost of cheeseburgers across the land.  (We’re talking about the USA here – home of the Cheeseburger..).

Basically, it was a really smart sounding woman talking about big data and her github account on public radio so my ears perked up.

Tonight, thanks to a half-clever google search I introduce you to Hilary Mason whose tagline is:

“Data scientist and hacker. I <3 data and cheeseburgers.”

I hope you find her, and her github gists interesting!