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Data science-adjacent blog posts about cool, but often frivolous topics.

Using AI to generate real LEGO® sets from text input

LEGO
R
ai

Combining generative AI with R and brickr to design LEGO mosaics that can be built in real life.
Nov 27, 2023

tidymodels: Adventures in rewriting a modeling pipeline

tidymodels
posit conf

posit::conf(2023) talk
Sep 15, 2023

Data of the Age of Reptiles: Part 1 - The Timeline

Yale Peabody
R
Dinosaurs

Introduction to the Data of the Age of Reptiles series of post. Analysis of the timeline represented in the mural.
Aug 6, 2023

Data of the Age of Reptiles: Part 2 - Color

Yale Peabody
R
Dinosaurs

Analysis of Zallinger’s use of color in the mural and the differences between geological periods.
Aug 6, 2023

Data of the Age of Reptiles: Part 3 - Undercoat

Yale Peabody
R
Dinosaurs

Reconstructing the black and white undercoat of the Age of Reptiles mural.
Aug 6, 2023

Data of the Age of Reptiles: Part 4 - Objects

Yale Peabody
R
Dinosaurs

Mapping the named plants and animals in the Age of Reptiles mural.
Aug 6, 2023

Simulating a game show: Let's make a deal
Let's Make a Deal
R
simulations
Determining the optimal strategy for the Go Big or Go Home game using Monte Carlo simulations.
Jan 8, 2023

2022: Year in review

Not a data science post

This year went by way more quickly than I planned. Let’s check it out.
Dec 29, 2022

LEGO brick-built Christmas trees

LEGO
R
ggplot

Data exploration of 61 different LEGO Christmas trees sold over the past 12 years.
Dec 24, 2022

Halloween episodes in The Office

The Office
R
gt

{gt} and {gtExtras} spooky tips & halloween hacks.
Oct 28, 2022

The dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and who they ate

Jurassic Park
R
gt

Working with {gt} and {gtExtras} to maximize dinosaur content.
Aug 8, 2022

Visualizing Jurassic Park: Character paths

Jurassic Park
R
gganimate

Using the gganimate package to plot character paths in the original Jurassic Park film.
Jan 7, 2019

Using machine learning to estimate where museum Instagram posts were taken

Yale Peabody
R

Follow-up to analysis of Instagram posts tagged at the Peabody Museum. Combining image and text analysis to locate images within the museum.
Nov 21, 2018

How To: Spiral line drawings with the tidyverse and gganimate

Golden Girls
R
gganimate

Convert an image into a single-line spiral drawing using R and the tidyverse.
Sep 11, 2018

Generating dinosaur names using deep learning

Dinosaurs
R
keras

Using Keras to generate new dinosaur names and display them on phylogenetic trees.
Feb 9, 2018

The Golden Girls Drinking Game: A Tidytext Analysis

Golden Girls
R
tidytext

Using tidytext principals to determine which season optimizes the Golden Girls drinking game.
Feb 5, 2018
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