"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." (Richard Hamming)

"The reason we model and analyze systems is to gain insight." (C. Nelson Dorny)

At the beginning of April, with the COVID-19 outbreak upending much of life as we previously knew it, I was casually following the case count numbers …

I presented at Utah Code Camp 2015 on machine learning with the Google Prediction API. IPython notebooks are available on GitHub, or they can be viewed directly with the IPython Notebook Viewer here:

• Converting Raw Input Files
• Machine Learning with Google Prediction API
• Taylor Swift Prediction with scikit-learn
• Taylor Swift …

I presented on machine learning and prediction to the Big Data Utah meetings as part of StartSLC 2015. Check out the the slides!

I competed in this year's edition of the Utah Data Competition, a local data science competition. The semiconductor yield prediction problem seemed simple enough on the surface, but it ultimately proved to be quite challenging. I attempted several modeling approaches but eventually converged on two that received most of my …

What began as a simple exercise in turning on the irrigation water to the yard culminated in an hour of yak shaving in which I actually measured the performance of my sprinklers. The well-meaning people at my City Hall had sent out an informative flyer earlier in the week with …