Illustration: Cat Attack
Guessing a Person’s Mood Based on Structured Text Data
It is not uncommon, at least, it hasn’t been uncommon in my years in data science that a stakeholder will come to you with the most impossible, unrealistic data need | question | idea, etc., and you go back to your desk and you scratch your head and you think to yourself “How the hell…
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Constructing a Halloween Platter
Halloween has come and gone and I think, even with how disastrous 2020 has been, this was the best Halloween we have had so far. To avoid the potential spread of COVID-19, we stayed home – no trick or treating this year. Because we were staying home, we knew we wanted to do something different…
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DIY: The Gardener Cross Stitch
I won’t bore you with some story about why I made this pattern as I hate that type of blog posts. I will mention; however, how much I love gardening. While I may not always keep my real plants alive, my thread plants will live forever. Here’s the link to the pattern. NOTE: While the…
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Can We Please Stop Using Word Clouds?
Word clouds have easily become the new pie charts. For definition purposes, a world cloud a simply a way to visualize the word frequencies from a piece of text. The most common terms are often shown in the different colors or larger sizes. You can make a world cloud slightly more complexed by using the…
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Illustration: Garden Shop
Coding: Reggeatoneros, Ranked by the Size of their Vocabulary
A while ago I saw this article from The Pudding where they ranked rappers based on the size of their song vocabulary. I love rap and the Puerto Rican equivalent, reggeaton, and I wanted to recreate a similar analysis for the genre. Reggaeton was always considered a “low” quality music genre with incorrect Spanish, vulgar…
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Illustration: Products
Illustration: Vegetable Garden
Recipe: Chewy Semi-Sweet Chocolate Cookies
ingredients – 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted cold butter cut into small cubes. – 1 cup packed light brown sugar – ½ cup granulated white sugar – 2 large eggs – ½ cup dark unsweetened cocoa – 1 cup cake flour – 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour – 1 tsp cornstarch – ¾ tsp baking soda – ½ tsp salt – 1 cup roughly chopped semi-sweet chocolate chunks. – 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips …
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