Code / Data

Aside with a brief fling with Java in college many years ago, I’ve been coding since 2019, when I joined a software development boot camp in Burlington, VT, to start a career transition. Prior to this I’d been a journalist with a technology problem: I worked on almost all aspects of newspaper web sites, but beyond HTML and CSS knowledge, my understanding of the scripting languages underpinning these sites (mostly Javascript variants or PHP, or a mashup of both) was rudimentary at best. The boot camp gave me enough experience to do freelance work, and then start my Masters in Data Science at RIT. These posts come from a variety of projects I’ve worked on at RIT, using Python, R, grep and sed programming languages/CLI languages.

  • Vermont Real Estate Pricing Model

    This is the term project for a regression class I took in the summer of 2021 as I worked toward my MS in Data Science at RIT. I looked at a dataset that has long interested me, the Vermont real estate tax data published weekly by the Vermont Dept. of Taxes. The model did not…

  • Turtle-Tac-Toe
    As part of my JavaScript training, I created a Burlington Code Academy project that features a tic-tac-toe game. This games allows you to play against a dumb AI, another human player, or a smart AI. The theme: Turtles vs. Tortoises. As my kids sing: A turtle lives in water, A tortoise lives on land.A turtle’s not a tortoise,It’s not hard […]
  • Geo-Vermonter
    A Burlington Code Academy project written in Javascript with a Leaflet map, based on the popular Google game Geo-Guesser. Players are randomly dropped on a zoomed-in section of the map of Vermont, and have to guess which Vermont county the pin has been dropped in. The map view can be moved, but each move costs a point, and each wrong […]

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