https://afwyld.com Notes on data science, statistics, music and bicycles. en-us https://afwyld.com/notes/hashtag-community-detection https://afwyld.com/notes/hashtag-community-detection A paper on grouping hashtags into communities using metadata-derived entropy scores, applied to Twitter and Parler. Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT networks research trss https://afwyld.com/notes/anomix https://afwyld.com/notes/anomix An open source Python package for univariate anomaly detection with mixture models. Narrow, but it does its few jobs well. Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT open-source statistics python trss https://afwyld.com/notes/xview3 https://afwyld.com/notes/xview3 Leading the TRSS team to 7th place in the Defense Innovation Unit's xView3 challenge — finding dark vessels in synthetic aperture radar. Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT computer-vision remote-sensing trss https://afwyld.com/notes/pitchfork-genre-classification https://afwyld.com/notes/pitchfork-genre-classification Can you predict an album's genre from the prose of its Pitchfork review? Mostly, yes — and the failures are the interesting part. Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT music classification pitchfork text-analysis https://afwyld.com/notes/pitchfork-data https://afwyld.com/notes/pitchfork-data A scraped corpus of Pitchfork reviews and scores, released publicly, plus a first pass of cleaning and exploratory analysis. Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT music data-release pitchfork https://afwyld.com/notes/yarpac https://afwyld.com/notes/yarpac A sunrise alarm clock built on a Raspberry Pi — light, audio, and a Flask form to set it from my phone. Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT raspberry-pi python hardware https://afwyld.com/notes/political-youtube-rhetoric https://afwyld.com/notes/political-youtube-rhetoric A computational linguistics analysis of YouTube transcripts, asking how leftist channels resemble the right-wing content they were built to answer. Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT linguistics research text-analysis https://afwyld.com/notes/follzam https://afwyld.com/notes/follzam A homemade Shazam. Spectral peak fingerprinting to match a recording against a library, built for a statistical computing course at CMU. Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT music programming https://afwyld.com/notes/econ-thesis https://afwyld.com/notes/econ-thesis My undergraduate honors thesis, on whether New York shifted sanitation spending toward gentrifying neighborhoods. It didn't — zoning explained more. Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT economics cities research