Jay MahabalPieces I Loved, August + September + October 2018I apologize for not keeping up to date, it’s been a hectic couple of weeks: I moved apartments and got a new job! On the plus side, my…Nov 24, 2018Nov 24, 2018
Jay MahabalPieces I Loved, June 2018I enjoyed this story about a penguin who fell in love with a cardboard cutout. Of course, it’s not just about Grape-kun, but also about…Aug 10, 2018Aug 10, 2018
Jay MahabalPieces I Loved, July 2018Geoff Boeing had a viral post of maps of cities that elegantly showed their street’s NS/EW distribution. Vladimir Agafonkin took it one…Aug 10, 2018Aug 10, 2018
Jay MahabalPieces I Loved, May 2018, Part 2Cristóbal Valenzuela talks about how the era we’re living in is similar to the mid-1800’s, when collapsible paint tubes expanded painting…Jun 5, 2018Jun 5, 2018
Jay MahabalPieces I Loved, May 2018, Part 1This article by Tom White describes their process for creating art using adversarial techniques and neural networks. It’s an especially…May 16, 2018May 16, 2018
Jay MahabalWeekend Project: Building an SMS-based grocery list using Twilio and FirebaseWhenever I’ve tried to use my phone as a grocery list it’s never really worked out. Using the iPhone notes app was fine for a while but it…Feb 2, 2018Feb 2, 2018
Jay MahabalinJay’s BlogWhy I CreateThis was written for A Cartographer’s Story, a series of posts on “the power your maps have had within your own life”. I highly encourage…Feb 25, 2017Feb 25, 2017
Jay MahabalinH2O.ai StoriesUsing Sentiment Analysis to Measure Election SurpriseSentiment Analysis is a powerful Natural Language Processing technique that can be used to compute and quantify the emotions associated…Dec 1, 2016Dec 1, 2016
Jay MahabalMaking an Emoji Map of the Bay AreaInspired by Martin O’Leary’s algorithmically-generated emoji maps, I thought the same concept could be extended to a manually-created map…Oct 16, 2016Oct 16, 2016
Jay MahabalinJay’s BlogHexagons are for squaresI came across this NPR article on using hexagons for tile maps recently. These types of maps, where states are abstracted to an equal-sized…Feb 18, 2016Feb 18, 2016
