Projects

• Classifying Eye Conditions Using Deep Learning

  Trigger Warning: Some eye affliction images may be disturbing to some. Machine- and deep learning have made huge strides in the medical field in terms of both predicting and diagnosing ailments. The ability to take an image and feed it into a tuned model makes it possible for machines to do the hard and repetitive…

• Classic Literature Word Clouds

  This month, I decided to commit myself to a reading list with 150 classic works. I can take my time, but I hope to finish it in a year or two. As a result, I read Frankenstein for the first time and realized how different the story is from the Hollywood portrayal. The concept of…

• Master’s Thesis Project

  Exploring partisanship, public sentiment, adherence to safety protocols, and COVID-19 Cases Three possible mediator variables (physical distancing data, mask mandate data, and online sentiment data) were gathered and tested for usability in the main mediation analysis. Preliminary analysis of the data gathered did not support the assertion of sentiment or masking data would be useful…

• Analyzing Health Inspections of San Francisco Restaurants in Tableau

  Having recently moved to the Bay Area, I have been exploring local datasets and came across one published by the Department of Health. It contained 54k observations on restaurants in San Francisco with various types of inspections that took place from October 2016 to November 2019. Link to original dataset My Cleaning Steps: Filled in…

• Life Expectancy Analysis in Tableau

  I have often wondered how the US compares to other countries when it comes to health and longevity. So I found this dataset on Kaggle andcreated a story in Tableau to show the results of my findings. In a surprise to few, Japan ranked #1 as the country with the longest lifeexpectancy for its people…

• Turning a NYT Survey Into a Map

  In July 2020, the New York Times conducted a survey asking the general public (~250,000 participants) what percentage of the time they wore a mask when within 6ft of people in public. The results of this survey can be accessed via the Times’ GitHub repository here: NYT GitHub. The dataset expressed mask usage in categories…

• Predicting House Prices: Linear VS Random Forest Regression

  When you are in the process of selling your house and also looking to practice your machine learning skills, it has to occur to you at some point to put the two together. Today, I used a housing price dataset to create two regression models to see which one is better at predicting the sales…

• COVID-19 Tweets: A Sentiment Analysis

  Earlier this year, I was working on my master’s project at UNH and decided to test the conclusions of a recently published paper. As part of my work, I conducted a sentiment analysis of tweets related to COVID-19. My goal was to see if online sentiment could link county-level partisanship with COVID case and death…

• Global Shark Attack Dashboard

  Click here to view the same dashboard in Tableau Public! Here you can now interact with this dashboard I created. Click on the map to select a country and filter for that country’s information. Or filter the data by whether the attack was fatal or not. Give it a try! I decided to create an…