Scraping product prices from the internet

All summer long I have wanted to purchase a new grill. I did a ton of research, looking for the perfect combination of size, features, and longevity, and what I quickly found was that my last qualifier - longevity - was one of the most expensive qualities to buy for. Quality grills are expensive at current regular prices, perhaps I needed to wait for a sale. I just needed to find one.

August 29, 2021 Read
Baby Tunes

As any new parent will tell you, there is no shortage of toys for babies that play music and/or make white noise to help them sleep. Between stuffed animals with built-in electronics, baby monitor cameras, and wind-up music boxes that we received as baby shower gifts, we had at least 5 music/noise generators around our baby’s room. Unfortunately, none of them worked very well. Off the Shelf In the first few months, our baby - like most - stayed in our bedroom with us.

June 13, 2021 Read
Dynamic Playlist Generator

The Problem I have been known to have something of an eclectic music taste. I can go from TOOL to Billy Eilish to Big K.R.I.T. to Nelly Furtado to Armin van Buuren without much consideration. While I occasionally end up going down a bit of a genre rabbit hole from time to time, generally I like the mix. I get bored if I listen to too much of the same genre.

April 9, 2021 Read
Ontario COVID-19 Active Case Tracking

Like many people, I have been drawn to the vast amounts of data being made available by governments as they track the COVID-19 pandemic. As I progressed through the data loading and cleaning phases of learning data science, I thought there might be a cool opportunity for a quick visualization of the data I was playing with. While doing this I learned a ton about Locating and collecting data from the Ontario Government Cleaning and associating data where key fields were not used consistently Handling map data and simplifying geography so the leaflet didn’t end up being huge and take a long time to render How to handle geospatial data and render interactive maps with Leaflet How to create parameterized R Markdown reports Read more about this on my github

March 9, 2021 Read
Introduction

Greetings and welcome! This is my first post to my CV site. This site will serve as a landing page for projects I work on in my spare time You can expect to see some cool data analysis using R and python.

March 9, 2021 Read