Projects

This is an abridged list of my side projects.

Jun 1, 2017
Spielbox

This project is a minimum-viable recommendation system for board games. It asks users questions about the kind of game they want to play, and provides them with a suggestion.

Tags: games, recommendation systems, web development
Mar 10, 2017
anagrams

This project implements the same API in different programming languages and frameworks using a common test suite. It currently supports Ruby/Sinatra, Go, and Elixir/Phoenix.

Tags: API, coding, web development
Nov 16, 2016
doublespeak

A find-and-replace Chrome extension for political doublespeak. The project was introduced in this post. You can install the extension from the Chrome Web Store. If you’re interested in making your own Chrome extension, check out this tutorial.

Tags: Chrome extension, humor, javascript
Aug 3, 2016
olympifier

This project attempts to classify athletes by event based on their physical characteristics using a variety of machine learning models. It was first introduced in these three posts. In 2016 the project was updated with an interactive visualization (code here).

Tags: data analysis, data visualization, machine learning, statistics, web scraping
May 15, 2016
xkcdsub

A find-and-replace Chrome extension based on XKCD comics 1288, 1625, and 1679. The project was introduced in this post and most recently discussed here. I also provided a tutorial for how to make your own Chrome extension here. You can install the extension from the Chrome Web Store.

Tags: Chrome extension, humor, javascript