Summer of Math Exposition

This blog starts with the premise of 'how can I evaluate if a method is shuffling is good enough?'. The deck used is from the boardgame Ticket to Ride, due to its more simple structure, and we look at two methods: riffle and pile shuffling. We visualize the patterns that arise while shuffling, we quantify the randomness in those patterns, and at the end, we reach a definitive conclusion on which of those methods is better than the other, and why.