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I ranked the EPCOT World Showcase pavilions three times and refused to combine them
Three rankings of the eleven country pavilions, and no overall score. Any single number would need weights, and the weights turn out to decide more of the answer than the data does.
Oct 16 min read


Disney World guests rate almost everything positively. Except getting in.
I spent a few weeks turning 604 Walt Disney World trip reports into a guest journey map. Eleven stages, from booking a hotel to flying home, each one rated bad, neutral or good by the person who lived it. Almost every stage came back positive. Rides scored +65, resort stays +62, dining +51. Cast members, fireworks, characters, all comfortably in the black. One stage went negative: park entry and crowds, at -6. It's the only part of a Disney trip that guests, on balance, do no
Sep 245 min read


Culinary Variety Collapses at the Top of the Michelin Guide
What 19,460 restaurants show about specialization, and why the first version of this chart was wrong.
Sep 34 min read
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