• The Best Git Repository of All Time

    The Best Git Repository of All Time

    In this post, I’m going to proselytize open source software and what I’m calling The Best Git Repository of All Time. I will preview how it’s going to…

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  • Sci-Fi Novel Data Visualization

    Sci-Fi Novel Data Visualization

    I collected Wikipedia articles for nearly 900 science fiction novels, and clustered them via the TF-IDF and k-means algorithms. The dimensions are reduced for visualization via t-SNE, the…

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  • The New Jazz Album Data Visualization (Portfolio Edition)

    The New Jazz Album Data Visualization (Portfolio Edition)

    For the previous version of this visualization, see my old blog post here. I wanted to both improve the quality of the code and the visualization. See this…

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  • Revisiting the Jazz Album Data Visualization

    Revisiting the Jazz Album Data Visualization

    I missed something in my initial critiques of my previous jazz album data visualization. For ease of reference, I’ll re-embed the graph I’m discussing here: Overall, I think…

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  • Is Jazz Dead?

    Is Jazz Dead?

    Background Recently, I attended a concert by Marcos Valle put on by the record label Jazz Is Dead. It reminded me to make good on my promise to…

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  • About Ben’s Blog

    About Ben’s Blog

    Welcome to my personal blog! I write about a variety of topics related to software, data, math, literature, and music – the first three as a professional and…

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