Can I Afford to Live in Auckland? A Weekend Data Project
A weekend side project exploring how publicly available New Zealand data can be turned into an interactive Auckland affordability calculator with Python and Streamlit.
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☕ Grab your favorite drink, get comfortable, and let’s slow down for a moment.
🌿 Explore AI, Data Science, and Math & Statistics through gentle explanations and interactive tools designed for beginners and anyone from a non-technical background.
✨ Coffee Break Quiz is intentionally unrelated to AI, math, or data. Instead, it’s a gentle pause to notice the small wonders of nature and everyday life, so you can return feeling a little refreshed.
🔧 Project Notes follows real side projects from the first idea to a working dashboard.
Coffee Break Quiz
Quiz #4: Six Tiny Animal Mysteries You May Never Have Wondered About
A gentle nature quiz on six curious animal behaviors, from a bee's waggle dance to how sea otters anchor themselves in kelp while they sleep. Six questions, six little wonders.
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P-Values, Explained With Coins, Chocolate, and a Little Doubt
A calm, plain-language guide to p-values, one of the most misunderstood ideas in statistics, and why it matters so much in data science.
A Beginner's Glossary for the AI Words You Keep Hearing
LLM. Tokens. Context windows. Fine-tuning. Hallucinations. A cozy, plain language glossary for the AI vocabulary everyone seems to be using these days.
What Can a Forest Teach Us About AI?
A walk through a forest turns out to be one of the best ways to understand how modern AI actually works, and along the way you'll pick up the term data scientists use for it: emergence.
What is a Normal Distribution?
Learn what a normal distribution is, why it's called the bell curve, and where it appears in everyday life.
Same Name, Totally Different Jobs: Linear Function vs Linear Regression
Linear function and linear regression sound alike but they do completely different jobs. Here's the simple explanation, with no maths degree required.
What Standard Deviation Actually Means and Why It Matters
Standard deviation sounds intimidating but it just measures how spread out your data is. Here is what that actually means, with no formulas required to get started.
The Data Pipeline, Made Simple
A simple story about how raw data becomes useful insights.
What is a Linear Function?
A simple explanation of linear functions - focusing on understanding before formulas.
Why the Average Can Lie to You
A simple look at why ‘average’ doesn’t always mean what you think it means.
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Coffee Break Quiz
Quiz #4: Six Tiny Animal Mysteries You May Never Have Wondered About
A gentle nature quiz on six curious animal behaviors, from a bee's waggle dance to how sea otters anchor themselves in kelp while they sleep. Six questions, six little wonders.
Quiz #3: What Tiny Thing Instantly Improves Your Mood?
A gentle quiz to help you notice the small, quiet moments that instantly lift your mood.
Quiz #2: What Kind of Cozy Chaos Are You?
A lighthearted look at your everyday habits, small decisions, and daydreams. Find out which cozy chaos type matches you best.
Quiz #1: Why Is the World So Colorful?
The world is painted with countless shades of blue, pink, green, and gold. But where do these colors come from? Some are created by light, others by chemistry, and some by the food living things eat. Let's explore five colorful wonders of nature.
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Math & Statistics
P-Values, Explained With Coins, Chocolate, and a Little Doubt
A calm, plain-language guide to p-values, one of the most misunderstood ideas in statistics, and why it matters so much in data science.
Same Name, Totally Different Jobs: Linear Function vs Linear Regression
Linear function and linear regression sound alike but they do completely different jobs. Here's the simple explanation, with no maths degree required.
What Standard Deviation Actually Means and Why It Matters
Standard deviation sounds intimidating but it just measures how spread out your data is. Here is what that actually means, with no formulas required to get started.
What is a Linear Function?
A simple explanation of linear functions - focusing on understanding before formulas.
Why the Average Can Lie to You
A simple look at why ‘average’ doesn’t always mean what you think it means.
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Data Science
Same Name, Totally Different Jobs: Linear Function vs Linear Regression
Linear function and linear regression sound alike but they do completely different jobs. Here's the simple explanation, with no maths degree required.
The Data Pipeline, Made Simple
A simple story about how raw data becomes useful insights.
Selected Category
Field Notes on AI
A Beginner's Glossary for the AI Words You Keep Hearing
LLM. Tokens. Context windows. Fine-tuning. Hallucinations. A cozy, plain language glossary for the AI vocabulary everyone seems to be using these days.
What Can a Forest Teach Us About AI?
A walk through a forest turns out to be one of the best ways to understand how modern AI actually works, and along the way you'll pick up the term data scientists use for it: emergence.