Click here for the pattern! NOTE: While the pattern is free, I’d love a shoutout if you do decide to use it. You can find me @things_grow in most social media sites.
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DIY: The Crafty Cross Stitch
Take the Cache! How Caching Can Help ML Management
We’ve all heard about caching. Usually, we associate caching with web development (at least I did); a way to temporarily store data as you browse the internet. But, “temporarily” store data can be use on so many different applications outside of web development. Recently, I encountered an optimization problem where I had to run the…
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Illustration: Crescent City Switch
To download, please click one the links below. First is in full size, second is cropped! If you do download it, please be sure to give me credit! Small Large Tools: Procreate. For a full list of brushes used, please send me a message!
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Analyzing Three Years of Data in the Life of a Skincare Addict
I’ve always been a sucker for self-care. Put it in a pretty package and I’ll most likely buy it. Add the words balm or dewy, the chances of me buying it go up by 100%. A problem? Meh. A hobby? Maybe, ha! As a teenager, I was guilty of using the “favorites” of the early…
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Illustration: Fantasy Map
Tools: IPad Pro, Procreate, Map Tool brushes.
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Illustration: Cat Attack
Guessing a Person’s Mood Based on Structured Text Data
IMPORTANT NOTE: Using syntax alone is NOT by any means a recommendable way to determine “feelings”. This is just intended as a fun exercise. 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 |…
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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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