Medium

Medium is an online publishing platform. I have been writing short article about data science, data visualization, machine learning and the Kaggle competitions I have participated in. Here is a list of all the articles:

• Hous Prices and Regressions
• 10 Machine Learning Flavors
• Titanic Maritime Machine Learning
• An Artist's Adventure into Data Science

10 Types of Machine Learning was both a way to better understand the algorithms I had been using and to explore what else was out there.

My background is actually Visual Art and for me the journey to working on data analysis was surprising but related to my education. Data Analysis is at its core a version of storytelling, and if a story about data is badly told, the best insight will never get used. Design and data go hand and hand in getting the right people to listen to the right information.
Here is an example from the House Price Regression competition that shows the variety of visualizations available.
Correlation is always at the heart of any data analysis. The most important thing is to understand what features are useful and focus the approach. The heatmap below shows the correlation between the entire dataset.

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Kaggle Competitions

Kaggle is a real-world dataset Machine Learning Competition

Kaggle is an online portal for data science competitions. It was recently bought by Google, undoubtedly so they can find talent. For me I used it as a way to teach myself Machine Learning. Everyone shares their work online and reverse engineering someone else's work can teach you a lot. At this point I have submitted results for two competitions:Titanic Maritime Disaster and House Prices Regressions. Below are several examples of graphs, the first being a linear regression from the housing dataset.

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Sometimes part of the process is finding what variables, or features, are not useful. When it came to predicting prices, the months actually showed little variation from month to month and meant the feature was not used for the final machine learning dataset.
Correlation to the variable you are trying to predict is important, a correlation heatmap gives you a quick understanding of what is important. Using this knowledge, feature engineering gets much more effective and easier.
For the Titanic competition you are directed to predict for half of the passenger list if someone survived based on their attributes. Below is breakdown of gender through titles, blue dots are those that perished and green are those that survived. The trend is easy to spot.
Likewise the fare has an impact as well, but not as strong as title. Building an understanding of feature relationships is key to making a good prediction.

Using these competitions to sharpen my skills has been perfect. Given the rarity of local work in this field it is a way to see what other people do with the same problems.

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Camhi Environmental Consulting

Logo, Business Card and Website Design

For the launch of Camhi Environmental Consulting I created a selection of logos, a business card template and helped in the website design and implementation. Due to the nature of the business the logo was an abstraction of a world map with the flexibility of highlighting specific continents in a different color if needed, or shedding everything but just the continental shapes. The choice of orange was made to stick out compare to all other environmental consulting logos that overuse blue and green.

Additionally I helped in the setup and design of the site on SquareSpace. Given the need to add content at will and the ease of doing exactly that without having to understand HTML and CSS in depth, it was the right choice. There are definite limits to what you can do with their templates but it does make a solid framework even for the designer in me

The design of the business card was made to highlight the color scheme and reiterates the structure of the abstracted continental shapes on both the back and the front.

In many ways this is an exercise in branding, keeping a consistent feel across the logo, website and business card makes the whole experience consistent and comprehensive.

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Sugarwood Meadow

Logo Design

Sugarwood Meadow is a rustic wedding spot in Northern Vermont and I was commissioned to make a new logo. In this case the feeling of a human touch instead of a clean graphic design was past of the feel of the logo. The black and white version was the final design but I also created a hand painted version as well for flexibility.

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Esc4pe Room

Promotional Material and Game Design

The Escape Room is a puzzle room where you and your friends have to solve a selection of puzzles to escape. For those that like puzzles, it is a perfect experience. In this case my work is ongoing as I am helping develop a gaming experience that extends in the real world to expand the game, but that I cannot show without giving it away at this point. I also completed some promotional materials for online advertising. Close Project

Art

Fine Art and Other Personal Projects

Boards

Hand Painted Skateboards and Paddleboards.