Celebrating Life Through Toni’s Reels: From Italy to Alaska
This article includes multiple reels created by my wife Toni. These reels highlight our 2025 travels and our family activities. Each reel is 1.5 minutes long.
My Experiment with Google Gemini: Leaning Tower of Pisa Collapse
This article documents a ten-minute Google Gemini experiment. The experiment includes giving an image to Gemini and then asking it to create a video from that image based on a prompt you give it.
Jett’s First European Trip – Day 3
This is the third article of a series that describes Jett’s first European trip. On Day 3, we visited Rome to see the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, and the Vatican.
Jett’s First European Trip – Day 2
This is the second article of a series that describes Jett’s first European trip. In Day 2, we visited Pompeii and the Amalfi coast.
Jett’s First European Trip – Day 1
This is the first article of a series that describes Jett’s first European trip. We started the trip with a whirlwind tour of London, thanks to my great friend James.
Using Alteryx to Perform Analysis of NASCAR Races
In this podcast, I describe some of the work I do in Performance Motor Sports. The NASCAR seasons offer a lot of surprises, excitement and opportunities to use Data Science to our advantage to help our teams win more races.
Are You Considering Adding Living Space To Your Basement?
We decided to add additional living space to our house by transforming the basement storage areas into usable rooms. This took over a year to complete. We learned a lot and want to share some of the insights with you.
Interesting Things (4)
I saw an engine building demonstration recently that I thought was very interesting. I thought it would be a good topic to share in this series.
Interesting Things (3)
Sometimes time lapse photography can surprise you with activities that you didn’t notice were happening when you made the movie.
Interesting Things (2)
The AI powered image enhancer program named Remini was used to make a future avatar of our 6-month old grandson. The results surprised everyone in our family!
Interesting Things (1)
Interviewing a 6-week-old baby.
What Does Malware Look Like, And How Do You Remove it Once It Invades Your Blog?
My Datablends blog got hacked in early October, 2022. The next month was not a fun time. I spent many hours on the phone trying to understand how to fix the problems. In this article, I summarize what I learned and did to eliminate the malware that infected my blog.
How To Design A Fun and Exciting Online Analytics Competition
This article discusses how I helped build the first-ever Alteryx E-Grand Prix competition. The article includes thoughts on building the competition problems and the behind-the-scenes activities that have to happen to make this type of event successful.
Our Italy Trip – Rome
In part two of this series, I recount the sights and feelings I experienced in Rome. The art, history, politics, culture, and architecture blew me away.
Truthful Global Warming Insights
Eight years of data-driven global warming research is wrapped up in this article. You can unpack a half-a-billion data points in this article to explore the ideas for yourself. You can download Tableau dashboards that will teach you a thing or two about linear modeling. Most of all, you will gain a better understanding of what is going on across our beautiful planet if you take the time to study this work.