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
Python
Remote Sensing
Linear Algebra
Data Science

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.

Emily Miller
Mar 28, 2026

Getting Data That Doesn’t Come in a CSV
Personal
R
Data Science
Web Scraping
Tutorial

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

Emily Miller
Mar 12, 2026

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
MEDS
R
Data Visualization

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

Emily Miller
Mar 9, 2026

Enobieta reservoir during drawdown

Un-Daming the Benthos
R
Statistics
MEDS

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

Emily Miller, Lucian Scher & Marie Tolteca
Mar 6, 2026

FIA dashboard preview thumbnail

Lost in the Woods
Personal
Python
R
Geospatial Analysis
Forest Ecology
Data Science

Why FIA data is hard to work with, and how to navigate the national forest inventory without getting lost in the schema.

Emily Miller
Mar 4, 2026

Out of Sync
Personal
Python
Tutorial

Why Garmin misses subscribed Google Calendars, and a safer workaround for getting shared events onto your watch.

Emily Miller
Jan 28, 2026

Irregular Outages
MEDS
R
Geospatial Analysis
Remote Sensing
Environmental Justice

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

Emily Miller
Dec 3, 2025

Burn Scars and Unequal Burdens
MEDS
Python
Geospatial Analysis
Remote Sensing
Environmental Justice

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

Emily Miller
Nov 29, 2025

Crossing Signals
MEDS
R
Statistics
Wildlife

Using a hurdle model to understand roadkill patterns on Danish roads

Emily Miller
Nov 29, 2025

The Fog the Models Missed
MEDS
Climate Science
Data Science

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

Emily Miller
Dec 6, 2024

Where to Put the Oysters?
MEDS
R
Geospatial Analysis
Marine Science

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

Emily Miller
Nov 15, 2024
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