In this post, I present the concept of calculating combinations from different choices. For educational fun, I will combine various parts of the bodies from two different creatures and see how many combinations we get. You’ll get to enter the animals to combine, and even get a name for your new mutant! If you have […]
Tag: STEM
Present Value and Future Need with Inflation
Ugh…Inflation! No one seems to like it but what does it mean? How can we measure how much purchasing power we’re losing due to inflation? Questions such as these and more are answered in this post. Inflation is the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services rises, eroding the purchasing […]
Overlay Real-time Animations Using Pygame
In this post, I demonstrate how to load an image file and do some simple overlay animations, such as drawing different shapes of different colors at ever-changing locations over the image using nothing but the good-old Pygame library. The code and working demo are embedded below. I wanted to load a static image of my […]
Calculating Playoff Chances
With the NFL regular season winding down after week 15, we have a pretty good idea of which teams are definitely out of the playoff hunt, which teams have clinched a playoff berth, but the rest are still up in the air. In this blog post, I calculate the chances of making the playoff for […]
Vehicles: Number of cars, density and more from around the world
In this post, I’m sharing some data on number of vehicles, their density taking into account the population, and other interesting metrics for a selected number of countries around the world. The visualizations and analysis will take you on a journey of telling the stories and takeaways from the numbers. The selected countries presented here […]
Plotting ranges of values – Cat metrics
In this purr-fectly delightful blog post, I’ll guide you through steps to meaningfully depict ranges of values in Excel, all the while crafting irresistibly cute charts—no graphic skills needed! You’ll discover a few charts showcasing upper and lower values, Means, and custom markers. Using data such as the lifespans, weights, and prices of different cat […]
Unicode transformation fun
In this post, I share some exercises of encoding a usual string of English/Latin alphabets into a readable Unicode version with styling but still into a text that can be copied/pasted anywhere without any special app, and then transform the input text into some interesting Unicode symbols (that can also be copied/pasted anywhere as text). […]
Custom Chess Board Setup for Sim and Puzzles
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 […]
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, […]