Data Science

When I first began to develop an interest in data science, my several-year-old laptop was enough to begin learning the fundamentals, but I quickly found that I had a desire for more and more computing power; far beyond what my setup could provide. It was pretty overwhelming to look at my limited budget for computer upgrades versus what was required to build a data science rig. There are plenty of “BEST BUDGET DATA SCIENCE PC!!” style videos available on YouTube, but I found the majority of these to be not particularly informative or useful. ...

Building a comprehensive dataset of U.S. carceral facilities using geospatial data, satellite imagery, APIs, and machine learning to support historical research on hyper-incarceration.

An exploration into building a fully automated system that generates news articles using LLMs based on real-time GDELT data, highlighting the prevalence and potential of AI-generated content.

It was fairly early on in my data science explorations that I discovered ‘remote sensing’. I have always known that satellite imaging was extant tech, and that most people interact with it in one way or another, probably through something akin to Google Maps. Though I had never given it much ‘formal’ thought, I assumed that this type of space age tech was limited to governments and powerful corporations. That assumption was markedly false—I was interested to learn. ...