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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.

Live · Daily game

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.

Live at picturepun.com, new puzzle every day
Live · Personal tool

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.

Live at deweydog.com, used daily
Machine learning · R · Python

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.

90% prediction accuracy · ~$100K saved per year on conflict-driven churn
Interview case study · Tableau · R · d3

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.

Predicted material requests & noteworthy performances with >90% accuracy
Public sector · k-means · Google Maps API

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.

Up to 12% faster ballot collection in the 2018 primary elections
Data viz · d3 · Tableau

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.

Full interactive visualization site
Sports analytics · R

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.

Lineup recommendations delivered to the coaching staff
Regression · R

Predicting my brother's gas bill

Modeled years of meticulous household utility records to predict monthly gas usage from average temperature alone.

Median cost prediction error of ~$6.50
Hackathon

Predicting NFL game scores

The Kaggle NFL challenge plus lessons from a Data Institute hackathon run. Write-up coming to the blog.

2nd place — Data Institute Data Science Hackathon, 2017
Side project · Java

Chugg

A Java desktop drinking game built to be played with a large group of people.

Shipped, played, enjoyed