What seems like yonks ago, I wrote a fun, DOS based visual game in college that’s a simple simulation of population growth with some user-inputs to the game (i.e. playing “God”, hence the title). You can read about it here. But here, I’m sharing info about that game, revisited, with a different twist. I rewrote […]
Tag: education
Data extraction with multiple criteria with interactive UI
Imagine we are business owners who provide a range of services. We have a large set of customer data but we really want to target those customers who might be interested in your services. We want to extract only that subset of data based on our services. And since we provide multiple, diverse services the […]
A Horse-race Simulation with a “Strip Plot”
Strip plots, or a dot plot horizontally spread out are very useful in certain cases. I’d use it to show spread or concentration of data points across multiple categories. For example, in order to visualize between brand A, and B, what are their product sales (or prices) and where they appear to focus. What the […]
Analyzing 10 Years of Patriots Performance: NFL
Love em or hate em, New England Patriots is a team to reckon with. They’ve implemented numerous creative and suspicious internal strategies that most other teams would love to copy or at least understand. Well, I cannot expose those details as they’re not available anywhere. What is available however is their scores and stats. So, […]
Twisted Magic Tales with Emojis – Fun, Free, Wonky!
I’ve written a story generator application that spews out stories differently every time it’s executed! I did this thinking of kids and family activities, while having nerdy fun on my end. This story generator creates a semi-random* story based on a skeleton storyline and changes the characters, objects, mood, locations, accessories and placeholders/keywords in the […]
A complete weather app (Python)
Here, I show step-by-step a complete weather application built using Python. Along with the critical explanations, the full source code is also included. The app makes a RESTful API call to weather service, gets the results back in JSON, then it parses the information and presents it in locale-specific format. The information we will send […]
Parsing date-time string and formatting according to AM/PM (Excel)
Here’s a relatively quick way to parse a date-time string or any string (regardless of data type in your source) containing date and/or time. It doesn’t matter if the time format is in 12 or 24 hour format, this method works. The time portion of the data can be in HH:MM:SS or HH:MM or similar […]
A quick holidays & events calendar (Excel)
A no-frills demonstration (with actual, real data) of building and publishing a calendar of holidays/events in the United States. Covers 2020 through 2023 and includes major religious, political, and federal events and holidays as a quick reference. Below is the dynamic, real-time version: For interactive tables, visualizations, tips, demos and more, please explore this blog: […]
COVID-19 Trends Update: 4-11-20
GLOBAL VIEW INTERACTIVE CHARTS Data retrieved from official WHO daily publications and worldOmeter.
Some of my faves: Live-Streaming Underwater Cams
Here are some of my favorite live-streams of underwater cams. They range from sharks, to coral reef life, to manatees. Also, there’s a link for an hour-long meditation while watching the apex predator of the underwater. Enjoy! Coral City Camera. Miami (FL, USA) Live stream from an urban coral reef in FL. Great streaming and […]