Blog

Notes, project writeups, course pieces, and the occasional record of whatever I have been trying to understand lately.

False-color composite of the HYDICE Urban hyperspectral scene showing roads, grass, and rooftops in distinct spectral colors

Hyperspectral Hyperawareness

A spring-break rabbit-hole through PCA, linear spectral unmixing, NMF, as well as where they can benefit from deep learning and where they still hold their own.

Mar 28, 2026
3/30/26, 11:01:54 AM

Getting Data That Doesn’t Come in a CSV

APIs, enrichment, and HTML scraping using the DOGE grant termination list.

Mar 12, 2026
3/31/26, 11:52:09 AM

A dark, PSA-style infographic set inside a car interior illustration. The rearview mirror shows a bar chart of crash counts by sobriety, the dashboard gauges show polar clock charts of crash timing, and a roadside billboard shows estimated deaths by gender and sobriety.

Driving Under the Influence of Statistics

How the same California crash data can be framed to ‘prove’ almost anything, and what that reveals about data literacy.

Mar 9, 2026
3/31/26, 11:51:40 AM

Enobieta reservoir during drawdown

Un-Daming the Benthos

Dam Decommissioning & Invertebrate Recovery: mBACI Analysis - Replication of Atristain et al. (2024)

Mar 6, 2026
3/31/26, 11:51:48 AM

FIA dashboard preview thumbnail

Lost in the Woods

How I built a Streamlit navigator for FIA and used it to make a national forest data workflow easier to explore.

Mar 4, 2026
3/31/26, 11:52:18 AM

Out of Sync

I built a Python script to copy Google Calendar events when my Garmin refused to sync subscribed calendars.

Jan 28, 2026
3/31/26, 11:52:27 AM

Irregular Outages

Using satellite night lights data and socioeconomic indicators to identify which Houston communities lost power during the historic February 2021 winter storms

Dec 3, 2025
3/31/26, 11:51:19 AM

Burn Scars and Unequal Burdens

Combining satellite imagery and socioeconomic data to understand the impacts of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires

Nov 29, 2025
3/31/26, 11:51:06 AM

Crossing Signals

Using a hurdle model to understand roadkill patterns on Danish roads

Nov 29, 2025
3/31/26, 11:51:12 AM

The Fog the Models Missed

How climate model biases in California’s marine layer contributed to the 2020 blackouts

Dec 6, 2024
3/31/26, 11:52:02 AM

Where to Put the Oysters?

A geospatial site-suitability analysis for oyster and abalone aquaculture along the US West Coast.

Nov 15, 2024
3/31/26, 11:51:29 AM
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