### Herb Susmann•CV•About

From Twitter:

Here’s the R code I used to generate the histogram:

The R code is also available as a gist.

# Fastest way to see 17 Boston breweries (and one cider house)

There have been a few articles in the last couple years that have used traveling salesman problem solvers to find the fastest way to see all the national parks or 72 breweries in the US. I’m going to join the trend on a smaller geographic scale by plotting the fastest way to see 18 breweries (including one cider house) in the Boston area.

The fastest route takes about 2.5 hours of driving (by your designated driver or using a ride service, of course) from start to finish:

If you take 15 minutes at each brewery to have a beer, and it takes 2.5 hours to drive to each one, you could do it all in only 7 hours. Not bad, that’s less than a full day at work!

# Jeopardy! Survival Analysis

Long streaks are rare in Jeopardy. Most winners only win one game, and slightly less than 40% win two games in a row. In fact, only 6 contestants have won more than ten games in a row.

This Kaplan-Meier survival plot visualizes the survival function of Jeopardy winners:

The data includes seasons 1-33 (aired 1984-2016), and does not include any championship or tournament games. The point on the extreme right is due, of course, to Ken Jennings and his 74 game winning streak.

Here’s the R code for the figure.