In addition to solving real-life and abstract challenges, I love playing chess and mulling over different scenarios. When I don’t want to play the entire game from beginning to end, but rather start at a climactic stage, it makes it even more exciting and challenging to play it to the end with someone or even […]
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Daily Chess Puzzle
I always loved Chess since I was a mere child. And I still love playing it. If you do too, or just want to improve or learn some chess skills, the following widget might be of interest to you. It brings fresh puzzles daily from chesspuzzle. net site based on famous players but the challenge […]
What would be your NFL team’s Unicode logo?
If you were to select a Unicode symbol for every team in NFL, what would they be? It cannot be graphics, emojis, or ASCII art…you must select a single Unicode character for each team that are in the standardized blocks. That means, the character can be copied and pasted as text in any text editor, […]
Fun with AI: Text and Image->Video
One of the relatively newer tools that came online for the general public designed to transform ideas into AI-generated videos is Hailuo AI. In this post, I’ll share a couple of examples of its outputs based on my paintings, drawings, digital creations, and text prompts. Hailuo’s Conch Video is a product of Minimax, a China-based […]
Brain Teaser: Palindrome Checker 45611-1445
Here is a quick Python coding puzzle or brain teaser for educational and/or entertainment purposes. The challenge is quite simple but is useful for learning or refreshing your coding skills while exercising some logical thinking. Objective Write a Python program that takes an input from the user (a word or a phrase) and tells the […]
What generation are you, what does it mean?
Generational names and their time ranges help to identify and categorize people born within specific periods, often characterized by unique experiences, cultural trends, and societal changes. In this post, I share its brief history and an interactive embedded program where you can find out about your or anyone else’s generation details. History of naming generations […]
Top Lobby Spenders 2023-2024
Companies, labor unions, trade associations and other influential organizations spend billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies. 2023 was a year of the largest spending since 2014 from 12,900+ lobbyists spending $4.3 Billion (not adjusted for inflation). In 2024 YTD, $3.3 Billion have been spent by 12,500+ lobbyists. Not surprisingly, real […]
Interactive Word-tree and Column chart
This post presents examples of a Word-tree chart, and a Column chart that are created using Google Chart engine that are interactive and can be embedded in a HTML page. We have a sample dataset of 250 college students’ favorite drink brand names in a raw format (fictitous dataset): Coca-ColaPepsiStarbucksRedBullMonsterGatoradeCoca-ColaPepsiDrPepperDrPepperStarbucksRedBullMonsterGatoradeCoca-ColaArizonaDrPepperArizonaRockstarCoca-ColaSprite7UpPepsiNestlé-Iced-TeaSprite…etc. Now I want to accomplish […]
Combo Scatter Plots, Normalization
In this article, I am presenting two key concepts: combining multiple scatter plots into a single plot for easy comparisons, and bringing data on different scales to a common one via normalization so that they can be accurately compared. To illustrate those concepts, let’s start with two datasets: 1) Data on a class of students […]
Interactive Gauge (Google Charts)
In this post, I demonstrate an interactive gauge using Google Charts library. It can be embedded into a web page as shown here, and connected to user-interface controls such as buttons with some javascript code. You can also just use it without interactivity to showcase metrics on a dashboard as a visualization. Go ahead and […]