A data scientist pursuing many side hobbies in his free time.
post @ 04-10-2023

Back in July, I bought a GameBoy Color for £10, and decided to mod it so I could emulate my youth and play Pokémon Crystal during an upcoming 1-month trip.

However, I had no experience modding consoles, and no soldering experience. But thanks to my partner and to YouTube, I opted for the best mods I could find that I had confidence I could complete without losing the console. Here is a before & after of the project:

Before and after modding the GameBoy Color console

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post @ 11-06-2023

I completed the National 3 Peaks Challenge on June 9th-11th, raising a total of £25000 as a group (£1045 individually) for the charity Family Action.

The challenge consisted of climbing the 3 tallest mountains in the UK in less than 24 hours. The challenge was completed in 23h43m:

  1. Peak 1/3: Ben Nevis (Scotland) - 1345m high - 5h39m46s:

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post @ 14-02-2020

While taking the “Information Visualisation” class during my Master’s in AI, one of our practicals consisted in calculating our 2019 carbon footprint (greenhouse gases, including CO2/CH4/N2O, that are built up from various everyday activities such as food, travel, living and shopping) via the WWF carbon footprint calculator and visualising it following the format of the Dear Data project as a postcard. The front of postcard contains the visualisation and the back contains the key to read it:

Infoviz in the Dear Data Project postcard format, showing my carbon footprint in 2019

The next section cover:

  • How the different attributes from the carbon footprint calculator were visualised.
  • If the visualisation follow the principles of expressiveness and effectiveness by T. Munzner.
  • A discussion of the visualisation’s advantages and limitations.

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