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01.1 - Let's talk about how to talk about statistics! Part one

01.1 – Let’s talk about how to talk about statistics! Part one

The first couple chapters of the ISLR deal with vocabulary and underlying concepts. I’ve chosen to summarize them in a series of hopefully more engaging and descriptive posts that break the information down topically. If you come from a STEM background, all of this should be at least passingly familiar, if not outright dull. If you don’t have a STEM background, then bear with me, cause the topic…

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#An in #Data Science #Data Science Basics #Machine Learning #R Programming Language #Stastics

Teaching Myself R via the ISLR

Teaching Myself R via the ISLR I already know Python, so here are some reasons for learning R as well as some differences between the two

This will be the first of hopefully a long series of posts of me learning the R programming language by working through the examples in “An Introduction to Statistical Learning“, which is free in PDF form. Before we get too deep into code and math, keep reading if you want a high level overview of Python (which I am mostly comfortable with) and R (which I know very little of).

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#An Introduction to Statistical Learning #Data Science #ISLR #Python #R Programming Language

What's with the new name?

What’s with the new name?

I’ve recently made the decision to focus this blog on my journey in data science. With that, I wanted to give a brief explanation of the name change, what I’ve been up to recently, and what I plan on doing moving forwards.

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#An Introduction to Statistical Learning #Data Science #Decision Trees #GINI Impurity #Machine Learning

What I learned from a Data Science Bootcamp

So those of you who may know me personally may be aware that I recently completed General Assembly’s Data Science Intensive Fellowship. I’ve had a few months to internalize the experience, figure out what other skills may help me get employed, and get a taste of the current job market. What follows is my deconstruction of the program:

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Off-Topic Entirely - SARS-2/Covid19 Thoughts

Off-Topic Entirely – SARS-2/Covid19 Thoughts

I know what you are thinking. “I come to this blog to learn about making things blink, not get bummed out by health, politics, and economics.” And that’s fine. Writing this is maybe more an exercise for me than you. But my background and interests are pretty eclectic, and I’m using this as a chance to exercise parts of my brain that are directly relevant to the things that I am doing in class.

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It's Been a While. . . .

It’s Been a While. . . .

It’s been the better part of two years since I last wrote a post for this site. The reason for this travesty is that I took a job for an abusive employer. I was working 80 hours a week, often including weekends. The breaking point was when I caught my employer stealing leave.

As my experiences withing my chosen field of chemistry have been mostly negative, and since there is little opportunity…

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Is Interactive Art Actually Art?

I am writing this piece in response to a recent article on Glasstire.com. For those of you who are not aware of obscure websites that offer information and critique on the Texas art scene, Glasstire offers information and reviews of art openings, galleries, museums, and events within and adjacent to Texas.

The article, titled “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Meow Wolf,” is a scathing critique…

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#Burning Man #Critique #Meow Wolf #op-ed

A Few Words on TouchDesigner

TouchDesigner is an extremely powerful and versatile tool for media and interactive art. I was introduced to this program by Tavia Morra, and got my first lessons in it from a workshop done by Daniel SchaefferMore and more, I find myself gravitating towards making my interactive projects with it, particularly since it allows for just about any kind of trigger, and you can control huge numbers of…

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#arduino #LED art #Tavia Morra #TouchDesigner

The FireFlower: Some Technical Details

So last post I gave a bit of an overview of how the FireFlower worked. Today, we’ll go into a little more depth about how it was made. Newsflash – I am terrible about documenting the things I work on, and so I will endeavor to do that better on future projects! The code for the two Arduinos will be posted to GitHub presently, and I will link them in an update soon, I promise! (more…)

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#arduino #Burning Man #Burning Man Regional #LED art #portfolio #Propane Flame Effects #The FireFlower

The FireFlower

The FireFlower represents my second fully self-designed interactive art project. It incorporates LEDs, color theory, propane flame effects, and an interactive puzzle game to trigger the effects. The project is made of steel and wood, uses a 30 gallon air compressor tank as a vapor accumulator, and is driven by two arduinos and a custom microprocessor. It debuted at Burning Flipside in 2016, and…

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#arduino #Burning Man #Burning Man Regional #LED art #portfolio #Propane Flame Effects #The FireFlower

The Quacken: Overview

This thing was so much fun to work on! This was easily the most technologically advanced project I have had a hand in. Animations and effect triggering were handled on a laptop using TouchDesigner, with code developed by Tavia Morraand myself, and animations primarily designed by Tavia. Effects were triggered by a game called “Duck…

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#Burning Man Regional #LED art #portfolio #Propane Flame Effects #Tavia Morra #TouchDesigner

Altared Space: The Code

So it has been a hot minute since I have made a post – been dealing with the ongoing madness that is trying to find a job.

The code for this project was based on the FastLED library, and modified from the demoreel example. Demoreelis a cool little snippet of Arduino C that really showcases how versatile the FastLED library really is. The only problem is that it is meant for a string of LEDs. As…

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#Altared Space #arduino #Burning Man #LED art #portfolio

Altared Space: LED physical layer

In a previous post we took a look at how we built the structure for Altared Space. Here we’re going to go into a little bit more detail about the physical layer for the LEDs.

The LEDs were driven by an Arduino Mega controller. If you don’t know anything about Arduino, it’s a great platform for beginners to get their feet wet with basic C programming skills as well as electronics projects in…

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Altared Space: Construction

Pictured above is the Sketchup drawing of the project. Obviously, a lot of identical repeating elements, which for a project like this translates to “easy to build.” I think all told, it took about 3 hours to make the model in Sketchup. From there, the file was sent to a friend who does vector work, and the pieces that needed to be cut and engraved were rebuilt there.

The arches were cut from…

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#Altared Space #Burning Man #LED art

Altared Space: The Backstory

In a previous post, I mentioned that Altared Space was a combination of LED project, burnable art piece, and wedding venue. Here’s the story of how it came to be.

My wife and I met at Burning Man in 2013 while working together on a large burnable art piece that one of our mutual friends had designed. That particular trip to the desert was fraught with a lot of challenges: our Uhaul broke down in…

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Here’s a thing I helped build.

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