Projects & case studies
Current side projects up top, then data science work from school, hackathons, and interview take-homes. Older, but each one drove a real result.
PicturePun
A daily visual wordplay game. Each AI-generated image is a play-on-words — a phrase, idiom, famous person, or thing — and you get one guess, a hint, and a shareable result. Includes an archive of past puns.
Dewey Tracker
A single-page tracker for our dog Dewey: meals, walks, poop count, medications, active treatments, and an all-important insolence meter that ranges from "angel baby" upward.
Predicting room switches for USF Housing
Random forests, SVM, and logistic regression to flag which freshman roommate pairings would end in conflict — before they happened.
Vertical Solutions: climbing-wall construction analytics
Interactive dashboards and predictive models over labor and build-status data for a climbing-wall construction company — resource timelines, foreman performance, and delay analysis.
LA County Elections: optimizing ballot collection
Optimized the assignment of polling centers to check-in centers, minimizing travel distance and time for ballot collection across Los Angeles.
Visualizing the IMDB
Interactive exploration of the factors that move a movie's gross earnings, built with d3, Tableau, and a lot of data wrangling.
USF Men's Basketball: optimal lineups
Analyzed play-by-play data to determine the best five-man lineup at any given moment of a game.
Predicting my brother's gas bill
Modeled years of meticulous household utility records to predict monthly gas usage from average temperature alone.
Predicting NFL game scores
The Kaggle NFL challenge plus lessons from a Data Institute hackathon run. Write-up coming to the blog.
Chugg
A Java desktop drinking game built to be played with a large group of people.