Building a personal data profiler locally, a system that collects parts of my digital footprint and helps me make sense of them.

Lately, my son has been obsessed with the game of Snakes and Ladders. So much so that he made it a mission to win the game first before he does any thing else. Watching him play so many games, I got curious about the game mechanics and design. In this post I explored questions like - what is the expected number of turns in a game, what a boring Snakes and Ladders board with extremely low variance would look like, and conversely, how to mathematically design a chaotic board where the variance is very high.

Exploring the Data Product stack through the lens of a personal expense classifier

I was recently going through some of the earliest text conversations between me and my wife. Apart from exposing our naiveness and excitement in a cute way, I found those texts insightful of our personalities and relationship. So I tried to apply what I do for my day job in analyzing the texts data and quantify the conversations.