Literature & Blog
Thoughts on data engineering, hardware hacking, and software development.
Why I Started Versioning Data Like Software: The pip install for Healthcare Pipelines
How we stopped treating data like a passive file and started treating it like an active software dependency to protect hundreds of medical research papers.
The API That Lied: Untangling the Chaos of Government Healthcare Data
A look back at a chaotic journey to domesticate a wild government healthcare data pipeline using Pydantic, dynamic quality scaffolding, and Medallion Architecture.
Dialing the Past, Resurrecting an Old 1940s Telephone
A multi-year journey in mechatronics: rebuilding a 1940s Western Electric telephone so it rings and plays family history, using a 2011 Raspberry Pi, an AG1171 module, and immeasurable patience.
The importance of visualizing data
A deep dive into Anscombe’s Quartet and a plea for the "misfit" data points. Why summary statistics are just a shadow of the truth.
The Taming of the CSV: A Guide to Robust Data Ingestion
A survival guide for ingesting messy data, handling encoding nightmares, and building pipelines that scream when things go wrong.
Seeing in Curves: A Practical Guide to ROC, TPR, FPR, and the Four Outcomes of Classification
A clear, intuitive walkthrough of ROC curves, true/false positives and negatives, and how to understand model performance beyond accuracy.