Chop Suey 🍜

Sprinkles of my work from various parts of my life. In no means refined, but with a dash of shoyu – still tasty. Like chop suey. Ingredients of this chop suey includes: data projects, apps, and graphic doodles.

📊 School Data Projects

As a stat and operations major, I've done some analytics and written some papers over the years on various topics.

  • Heterogeneity in NBA Three-point Shots: analyzes three-point shots made during the NBA regular season across a variety of dimensions: individual players, and two types of subgroups: teams and positions. It focuses on the heterogeneity of the propensity to make three-point shots across these three levels of analysis.

  • Understanding Customers through Covariates: analyzes customer purchase data to understand underlying characteristics of the customer base.

  • Course Demand @ Penn: takes raw data from PCA and analyzes course demand through student behavior.

  • Tweeting Crises: uses Twitter data to understand how crises manifest and promote change through social networks.

 

Derby

This car was made in Mechanical Design for a race. It is made out of 0.25" acryllic (sides and wheels), 0.125" MDF (living hinge hood and back), with a 3D printed plastic part (roof). Parts were designed in Solidworks 2015, printed using MakerBot Replicator 5th generation, and cut using PLS 4.75.

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Press

This prototype was made in Mechanical Design to exhibit press fitting. In addition to project requirements, I included a living hinge on both sides through 0.125" MDF to add an organic touch to the originally rigid aesthetic. Parts were designed in Solidworks 2015 and cut using PLS 4.75.

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