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Journal Article: In The Blink of an Eye - Reading Mental States From Briefly Presented Eye Regions

An article I’ve been supporting has finally been published in I-Perception! Authors: Gunnar Schmidtmann, Joshua

Books Read in 2019

It’s that time of year again! I’ve been doing these yearly summaries of my reading

Appreciating R: The Ease of Testing Linear Model Assumptions

I’d always heard about the package

The Favourite Books of Almost 200 Students in Georgia

A few months ago I posted online about a custom

Preprint: Temporal processing of facial expressions of mental states

I got the pleasure of working with a small team of researchers on trying to understand human emotion recognition. And specifically the

Finding the Most Published Author in the New Yorker

The New Yorker is one of the most prominent

Programmatically Creating a 500 Book Cover Collage

For the past few years, I’ve really gotten back

Custom Git Commands - Making Git-Status-Size

Sometimes you find a task that seriously disrupts your

Fitting Polynomial Regressions in Python

The linear regression is one of the first things you do in

Bank Services for Community Projects

I’ve been a semi-regular attendee of the <a

Improving My Hexo Blogging Workflow

Hexo

Topic Modeling Song Lyrics - An Exploration in Unsupervised Text Analytics

For most of my professional and hobby experience in data science, I haven’t ventured too far into text analytics. Having some more time

Ontario Municipal per Capita Transit Spending

Municipal transit is a hot button issue these days,

Getting Started With Local Open edX Development

The world of online learning is vast. There are a myriad

The Values Behind Chalmers Cards

So we’ve been working away at Chalmers Cards. Thanks for all the

Using Civic Tech to Combat the Homelessness Crisis in Toronto

Homelessness in this city, and

Applying the Bradford Hill Criteria to Economics and Policy

Sir Austin Bradford Hill

Digital Marketing in the Public Policy Space

In the previous dark ages of marketing and advertising

Is an Internet Forum for Public Policy Possible?

As most of you that know me are aware, I love political science and public policy. My whole career has been spent doing work in the

Building the Python chow_test Package

In my spare time I like to do online courses. Some of them are free, like the ones on <a href="https://www.coursera.org/"