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- Most popular:
- Katrina Information Map -
Jonathan Mendez and I worked on www.scipionus.com, which had a map where
people could post information about Hurricane Katrina. It got some media attention. (BBC, Wired, Forbes, New York Times) I'm hosting a backup copy with the original data.
Released 16-Sep-2005 - Same-sex marriage map -
Interactive map showing legality of same-sex marriage/civil unions in the United States.
Released 31-Mar-2009 - Baseball win expectancy finder (linked from FiveThirtyEight (search for "eighth inning"), The Washington Post, and more!) and other baseball statistics -
My baseball statistic calculators. There you can find baseball win expectancy finder - you plug in the game situation and it will tell you what percentage of games that had that situation led to a win. You can also graph the running win expectancy throughout a whole baseball game. Or, you can find the expected number of runs per inning from a given situation.
Released 22-Aug-2015 - Float to Hex -
A floating-point to hex converter.
Updated 22-Oct-2016, released 8-Apr-2006 - Mobile apps - my apps for Windows Phone, Windows 8, webOS, and Android
- Jump to top
- Katrina Information Map -
Jonathan Mendez and I worked on www.scipionus.com, which had a map where
people could post information about Hurricane Katrina. It got some media attention. (BBC, Wired, Forbes, New York Times) I'm hosting a backup copy with the original data.
- Newest:
- State Election Map -
A map showing US election results by state.
Released 14-Feb-2019 - probabilityToFriendlyString -
Library for making probabilities more intuitive by converting them to odds (i.e. 72.3% becomes "5 in 7")
Released 29-Aug-2018 - Odds in Pandemic: The Cure of Curing a Disease with Dice -
Calculating the odds of rolling high enough with non-standard dice.
Released 5-Mar-2018 - Tournament Probabilities -
A quick look at determining some intermediate probabilities for who will win a tournament.
Released 30-Oct-2016 - Clue Solver -
Enter information from the game Clue and the solver will deduce information and do simulations to show where the
cards likely are.
Updated 24-Aug-2016, released 28-Oct-2007 - All 30 MLB team names, logos, mascots ranked! -
A rating of all Major League Baseball team names, logos, and mascots.
Released 14-Oct-2015 - Optimal TFS Gated Checkin Batching -
How to optimally batch Microsoft's Team Foundation Server's gated checkins.
Released 23-Jul-2015 - Probabilities in the game Camel Up (or Camel Cup) -
Some probability calculations related to the game Camel Up (or Camel Cup).
Released 11-Jul-2015 - World Cup: Advancing out of the Group Stage -
Calculating how likely a team is to advance out of the World Cup group stage given their number of points.
Released 8-Dec-2013 - FitCalendar -
Summarizing Fitbit data in a helpful way.
Released 17-Mar-2012 - Stock market returns - visualizing the average annual returns of the S&P 500 over time.
Released 25-Jan-2011 - LJ for WebOS - a LiveJournal client for WebOS devices (Palm Pre, Pixi, etc.), which used to be available on the Palm App Catalog.
Released 31-Jan-2010 - Determining home energy usage from temperature - using R to determine how our energy usage varies based on the temperature outside.
Released 9-Nov-2009 - Log Colorer -
Coloring pointer values in a log and optionally replacing them with descriptions.
Released 1-Sep-2009 - Making GLSlideshow Show Comments -
Making GLSlideshow show the comments from pictures in my gallery.
Released 10-Aug-2009 - Same-sex marriage map -
Interactive map showing legality of same-sex marriage/civil unions in the United States.
Released 31-Mar-2009 - Benchmark analyzer -
Automated analysis of benchmark data.
Released 23-Feb-2009 - Where's lunch? -
A way to find good lunch spots near you!
Released 25-Jan-2009 - ThumbnailCopy Firefox Extension -
A very simple Firefox extension to allow copying HTML from a thumbnail image.
Updated 30-Nov-2017, released 3-Jan-2009 - IsMyDataSignificant.com -
A quick script to determine if a data set is significantly different than expected.
Released 19-Dec-2008 - Jump to top
- State Election Map -
A map showing US election results by state.
- Interactive:
- State Election Map -
A map showing US election results by state.
Released 14-Feb-2019 - Pretty Pictures from Genetic Algorithms -
Create and breed together pretty pictures.
Released 17-Jul-2007 - Interactive Maps -
My Google map, done with the
Google maps API. I also did
a Yahoo! map, based on the Yahoo! maps API (which is now defunct).
Released 3-Apr-2006 - Same-sex marriage map -
Interactive map showing legality of same-sex marriage/civil unions in the United States.
Released 31-Mar-2009 - Jump to top
- State Election Map -
A map showing US election results by state.
- Interoperable:
- FitCalendar -
Summarizing Fitbit data in a helpful way.
Released 17-Mar-2012 - Making GLSlideshow Show Comments -
Making GLSlideshow show the comments from pictures in my gallery.
Released 10-Aug-2009 - LiveJournal Backup -
A way to backup your LiveJournal. See my backed-up journal (public posts only).
Released 14-Jan-2007 - Palm to Google Calendar -
An interface to copy a Palm datebook to a Google Calendar, which is written mostly in
Ruby.
Released 16-Aug-2006 - LJ Blog Adapter -
A little utility to read posts from a
private RSS feed and post them to LiveJournal.
Released 21-Mar-2007 - Jump to top
- FitCalendar -
Summarizing Fitbit data in a helpful way.
- Data:
- State Election Map -
A map showing US election results by state.
Released 14-Feb-2019 - IsMyDataSignificant.com -
A quick script to determine if a data set is significantly different than expected.
Released 19-Dec-2008 - iTunes Rating Analysis - Have an iPod? Use iTunes to manage your music? Get an analysis of your favorite albums and bands!
Released 18-Nov-2007 - Same-sex marriage map -
Interactive map showing legality of same-sex marriage/civil unions in the United States.
Released 31-Mar-2009 - Benchmark analyzer -
Automated analysis of benchmark data.
Released 23-Feb-2009 - Congress Votes -
A way of scoring US Representatives on their roll-call votes. My first project in Haskell!
Released 22-Apr-2007 - Baseball Statistics -
My baseball statistic calculators. There you can find baseball win expectancy finder - you plug in the game situation and it will tell you what percentage of games that had that situation led to a win. You can also graph the running win expectancy throughout a whole baseball game. Or, you can find the expected number of runs per inning from a given situation.
Released 22-Aug-2015 - Netflix Prize -
My code for competing in the
Netflix Prize.
Released 6-Nov-2006 - Jump to top
- State Election Map -
A map showing US election results by state.
- webOS:
- Mathy:
- Clue Solver -
Enter information from the game Clue and the solver will deduce information and do simulations to show where the
cards likely are.
Updated 24-Aug-2016, released 28-Oct-2007 - Stock market returns - visualizing the average annual returns of the S&P 500 over time.
Released 25-Jan-2011 - probabilityToFriendlyString -
Library for making probabilities more intuitive by converting them to odds (i.e. 72.3% becomes "5 in 7")
Released 29-Aug-2018 - Probabilities in the game Camel Up (or Camel Cup) -
Some probability calculations related to the game Camel Up (or Camel Cup).
Released 11-Jul-2015 - Optimal TFS Gated Checkin Batching -
How to optimally batch Microsoft's Team Foundation Server's gated checkins.
Released 23-Jul-2015 - Odds in Pandemic: The Cure of Curing a Disease with Dice -
Calculating the odds of rolling high enough with non-standard dice.
Released 5-Mar-2018 - Tournament Probabilities -
A quick look at determining some intermediate probabilities for who will win a tournament.
Released 30-Oct-2016 - Determining home energy usage from temperature - using R to determine how our energy usage varies based on the temperature outside.
Released 9-Nov-2009 - World Cup: Advancing out of the Group Stage -
Calculating how likely a team is to advance out of the World Cup group stage given their number of points.
Released 8-Dec-2013 - Weight -
My weight, tracked on a daily basis with some smoothing with the help of R.
Released 19-Jan-2009 - IsMyDataSignificant.com -
A quick script to determine if a data set is significantly different than expected.
Released 19-Dec-2008 - Austin Math Circle talk -
I gave a talk to the Austin Math Circle about math in computer science.
Released 19-Dec-2008 - Point values in the game "Target" -
A numerical analysis of the target cards in the game Target, complete with a nice summary graph and chart.
Released 3-Jun-2008 - Super Mario Bros. (board game) Solver -
Quick script to find the probability of winning the
Super Mario Bros. board game
on the first turn.
Released 24-Jan-2008 - Hat Problem Strategies -
Analysis of how to choose a good strategy for
the hat problem, using techniques in Artificial Intelligence.
Released 20-May-2007 - Float to Hex -
A floating-point to hex converter.
Updated 22-Oct-2016, released 8-Apr-2006 - Period of Fibonacci Numbers in Varying Moduli - My high school science fair project, which
won awards at the Texas State Science Fair.
Released 5-Jun-2006 - Farkle Probabilities -
A quick MathML experiment to show some
Farkle probabilities - I didn't get very far before realizing how difficult
hand-coding MathML is.
Released 10-Apr-2006 - Jump to top
- Clue Solver -
Enter information from the game Clue and the solver will deduce information and do simulations to show where the
cards likely are.
- World of Warcraft:
- WoW Arena graph -
A graph of our (now defunct) 5v5 Arena team performance. Can drill down to different strategies, players, etc.
Released 10-Dec-2007 - WoW Frost Mage DPS -
A DPS calculator for Frost Mages. Looks
up data from the Armory.
Released 2-Oct-2007 - Auctioneer Lookup -
A service to look up auction house prices in World of Warcraft. This relies on my own data gathered from the
Auctioneer mod.
Released 28-Feb-2007 - WoW Armory Info -
A table of guild information about the
World of Warcraft guild I'm in.
Released 15-Mar-2007 - Guild Info Mod -
An older table of guild information about the
World of Warcraft guild I used
to be in.
Here's information about installing the mod and service that submits the info to the table.
Released 14-Feb-2006 - Jump to top
- WoW Arena graph -
A graph of our (now defunct) 5v5 Arena team performance. Can drill down to different strategies, players, etc.
- Other:
- All 30 MLB team names, logos, mascots ranked! -
A rating of all Major League Baseball team names, logos, and mascots.
Released 14-Oct-2015 - Log Colorer -
Coloring pointer values in a log and optionally replacing them with descriptions.
Released 1-Sep-2009 - ThumbnailCopy Firefox Extension -
A very simple Firefox extension to allow copying HTML from a thumbnail image.
Updated 30-Nov-2017, released 3-Jan-2009 - TODO list -
A TODO list using AJAX. The list is roughly based on the principles of Getting Things Done(GTD).
Released 8-Feb-2006 - Jump to top
- All 30 MLB team names, logos, mascots ranked! -
A rating of all Major League Baseball team names, logos, and mascots.