I’ve been solving crossword puzzles for more than 15 years now. While I don’t cheat by Googling the clues, I do allow myself to research esoteric clues on Wikipedia to learn about them. However, I can’t help but notice the growing number of websites dedicated to just crossword puzzle answers. How many people are actually searching the web for these answers? Who’s “cheating”? Can we quantify this?
May 24, 2019Every so often in the NYC tech scene, I’ll meet someone who had read my blog and was curious to see what I’ve been to recently. I’ve been doing a lot of data work, but haven’t had a chance to keep my blog up to date. So here’s a quick update!
Sep 29, 2018I recently volunteered with DataKind and had the chance to lead a team of fellow volunteer data scientists on a six-month long pro-bono project for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s (ILRC) New Americans Campaign to analyze and visualize the demographics and geography of lawful permanent residents eligible for naturalization
Aug 15, 2017GitHub Pages is very easy to setup to host a webpage, but I happen to already have my own domain name and webhost that I want to keep using. I don’t want to manage 2 different sites right now. Here’s what I did to redirect traffic going to my Github.io page [ozzieliu.github.io] to my primary site [ozzieliu.com]?
Aug 09, 2016I have a colleague working in entertainment that needed to gather ticket prices on 3rd party sales to get a reading on the popularity and pricing of events. Currently, the colleague’s company pays a large sum to a contractor to scrape this data daily. We wanted to see if this was possible and easy to do using the StubHub API.
Jun 21, 2016