• Recipe 015: Pokemon Gen 3 K-means Clustering

    Take Charge of your Destiny! In this data story I’ll be showing you how a self guided machine learning algorithm can select the best Pokemon squad for the Hoenn region. At the end of this data story you’ll have six Pokemon to look out for in Pokemon GO , as well as understand why the…


  • Recipe 014: Smash Brothers Main Selection

    In this recipe I’d like you to chow down on a Smash Brother analytical approach to selecting your main character.  The approach I’m going to introduce you puts an emphasis on what makes a character unique.   Before I start diving into the Smash Brothers data, let’s discuss the k-means clustering approach.  A k-means helps…


  • Recipe: 009 Game of Thrones Survival of the Fittest

    “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.” — Cersei Let’s bring this quote to life in what I like to call a survival tree of the fittest.  This week’s analysis will focus on the character survival in Game of thrones.  Chow down and enjoy! Winter is coming and you’d like…


  • Recipe: 006 Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts Revenue Influencer

    It all started with a mouse.  This mouse is turning 90 this year and Mickey Mouse has made his impact on society.  To celebrate, what better meal to cook us this week than Walt Disney World Data?  I’ll be challenging myself to identify influencers on the Parks and Resorts Division’s yearly revenue. With Mickey Mouse…


  • Recipe: 005 Overwatch League Inaugural Season Logistic Regression

    I’m excited to tackle the Overwatch League and my first dig into E-sports in general.  I’ve attended several conventions, including gaming conventions, and I will get this out of the way now: I thought I was decent at video games… these athletes have shown I’m a very causal player.  This is a good thing, it…