PinnedData Science FilmmakerWaiting on the World to Tell Me Where It Wants MeI am a filmmaker. I am also a scientist. I enjoy both of these things quite a lot. Filmmaking is my creative passion — the thing that gives…Aug 26, 2023Aug 26, 2023
Data Science FilmmakerA Substitute Job — Using Python to Scrape a Website and Send Messages to MyselfI am a filmmaker. I am also a data scientist. At this precise moment, neither of those pursuits is paying me, so I am also a substitute…Apr 24Apr 24
Data Science FilmmakerWho’s On First? (6/6) — Using a Keras Recurrent Neural Network Trained on Stock Exchange Data…In this final installment of my series on using Recurrent Neural Networks to generate fake names, we finally come full circle. If you…Apr 1Apr 1
Data Science FilmmakerWho’s On First? (5/6) — Further Testing of Character-level Recurrent-Neural NetworksI created a character-level recurrent neural network (RNN) from scratch, and recreated the same network using Keras. I trained the…Feb 28Feb 28
Data Science FilmmakerWho’s On First? (4/6) — Testing Keras Against a Recurrent-Neural Network Built from ScratchI built a character-level recurrent neural network from scratch and used it to generate fake names for Major League Baseball players. I…Feb 15Feb 15
Data Science FilmmakerWho’s On First? (3/6) — Using SimpleRNN in Keras to Generate Fake Baseball Player NamesSo far in this series I have downloaded and parsed the names of every Major League Baseball player in history, built a recurrent neural…Feb 5Feb 5
Data Science FilmmakerWho’s On First? (2/6) — Building a Character-level Recurrent Neural Network to Generate Fake…Last time, we downloaded a list of every baseball player who has ever played in the major leagues, split the names into separate lists of…Jan 29Jan 29
Data Science FilmmakerWho’s On First? (1/6) — Building a Character-level Recurrent Neural Network to Generate Fake…A few months back, I wrote a series on generating fake cell phone contacts. In one of the posts in that series, I used a character-level…Jan 221Jan 221
Data Science FilmmakerMy God, It’s Full of Stars (7/7) — Adding a Text Box to an Interactive Matplotlib InterfaceThe final step in our mission to create an interactive interface for the creation of star clusters in Python using matplotlib is to add a…Jan 18Jan 18
Data Science FilmmakerMy God, It’s Full of Stars (6/7) — Adding Sliders to an Interactive Matplotlib InterfaceSo far, we have learned some of the astrophysics of star clusters and white dwarfs, gotten Python to talk to our legacy C code using…Jan 12Jan 12