Welcome to my website! I hope you enjoy your stay. http://charlieyaris.com/ Launch a firework from any page on my website. - Sometimes coding is just a thing I like to do for fun. Try out my new D3.js firework launcher on the navbar. Credit is owed to Mike Rossetti’s D3.js Hanabi project for getting me started on coding my own D3.js fireworks. Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600 http://charlieyaris.com/2021-02-14-post/ http://charlieyaris.com/2021-02-14-post/ Performing network analysis on almost 200 years of historical data from the Correlates of War (COW) Project. - See my newest project, an interactive network analysis tool coded with both Python and JavaScript (using the D3.js library). The data has been sourced from The Correlates of War (COW) Project to compare networks between countries at war. Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600 http://charlieyaris.com/2020-11-02-post/ http://charlieyaris.com/2020-11-02-post/ Comparing historical time series models using data from GunViolenceArchive.org. - I developed a tool written JavaScript (using the D3.js library) to compare gun violence forecasts over time. The data comes from GunViolenceArchive.org, a not-for-profit corporation formed in 2013 to provide online public access to accurate information on gun-related violence in the United States. Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500 http://charlieyaris.com/2019-06-10-post/ http://charlieyaris.com/2019-06-10-post/ My version of the classic code-cracking game. - I had so much fun working on this project over the past few weeks. Below is my version of the classic board game, Mastermind. It’s both my first project coded in JavaScript and my first one using the D3.js library. Enjoy! Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600 http://charlieyaris.com/2019-02-28-post/ http://charlieyaris.com/2019-02-28-post/ Extracting topics from the prophecies of Nostradamus using natural language processing. - Note: All charts below were created with Matplotlib and Seaborn unless noted otherwise. Can topic modeling teach us about the subject matter of Nostradamus’s prophecies? This is the question I sought to answer by applying natural language processing to an almost 500 year-old document, Nostradmus’ “Les Propheties.” Since its publication... Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600 http://charlieyaris.com/2018-11-18-post/ http://charlieyaris.com/2018-11-18-post/ An investigation into human behavior using binary classification. - Note: All charts below were created with Matplotlib and Seaborn. My most recent project at Metis entailed using court sentencing data to predict whether a defendant pled guilty, or was found guilty by a jury at trial. By total coincidence, the dataset I used on guilty sentences from the county... Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500 http://charlieyaris.com/2018-11-02-post/ http://charlieyaris.com/2018-11-02-post/ A lesson on feature weights. - Note: All charts below were created with Matplotlib and Seaborn. For my second project as a student at Metis, I used linear regression to predict the prices of prescription medications. Focusing only on drugs in pill form, my model contained 1,027 different drugs, and aimed to predict the price per... Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500 http://charlieyaris.com/2018-10-15-post/ http://charlieyaris.com/2018-10-15-post/ Choosing the optimal train station for an upcoming promotion. - Note: All charts below were created with Matplotlib and Seaborn. This week at Metis, we worked on a group data analysis project. The objective of our analysis was to provide a recommendation for where a women in tech organization should place their volunteers in promoting their upcoming summer gala. With... Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500 http://charlieyaris.com/2018-10-01-post2/ http://charlieyaris.com/2018-10-01-post2/ Take a break and come back later... - Last week I began studying as a full-time student in Metis’ data science bootcamp. Following a review in exploratory data analysis, I worked throughout the week with my new classmates on our first project, which analyzed MTA turnstile data. I had learned web scraping with scrapy before the course, so... Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500 http://charlieyaris.com/2018-10-01-post1/ http://charlieyaris.com/2018-10-01-post1/ Why would a reckless driver get a warning instead of a citation? - Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500 http://charlieyaris.com/2017-04-27-post/ http://charlieyaris.com/2017-04-27-post/ Maryland Traffic Violations Why would a reckless driver get a warning instead of a citation? Uncovering Jury Tariffs in Chicago’s Justice System An investigation into human behavior using binary classification. Fri, 31 Dec -0001 23:58:48 -0550 http://charlieyaris.com/-0001-12-31-post1/ http://charlieyaris.com/-0001-12-31-post1/