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Reflections from Scotland and London
When we destroy ecosystems, we’re not just losing what we know is there, we’re losing everything we haven’t yet had the chance to discover.
Maxwell Patterson
Nov 1, 2024

Simulating Fantasy Basketball Scenarios
An NBA API Investigation
Maxwell Patterson
May 18, 2024

Exploring Word Embeddings with Kern County Oil News Articles
Word embeddings are a powerful technique in natural language processing (NLP) that represent words as numerical vectors in a high-dimensional space. These vector…
Maxwell Patterson
May 17, 2024

My Journey Through Math
The mathematical world has undergone a significant transformation over the last 80 years. While many historians believe that the Golden Age of mathematics occurred during…
Maxwell Patterson
May 15, 2024

The Failure of Agricultural Subsidies: How Government Policies are Harming Our Health and the Environment
Have you ever stopped to think about how the food on your plate got there? Sure, you probably bought it at the grocery store or ordered it at a restaurant, but what…
Maxwell Patterson
Apr 28, 2024
 
Topic Analysis: Biodiversity Loss
In this blog post, we will explore the topic of biodiversity loss using text analysis techniques in R. We will use the quanteda, tm, topicmodels, ldatuning, and other relevant packages to process and analyze a set of articles related to biodiversity loss. The goal is to identify the main topics discussed in these articles and…
Maxwell Patterson
Apr 26, 2024

Predicting Dissolved Inorganic Carbon with Machine Learning
This blog post is reflecting on the last assignment done in EDS232 of the Bren MEDS program. We were given data from CalCOFI, an orgainzation that has existed over 70 years…
Maxwell Patterson
Apr 10, 2024
 
The Dynamics of Dynasty: A Fantasy Basketball Visual Exploration
Visualizing the dynamics between fantasy scoring and age in the A.S.S. League
Maxwell Patterson
Mar 9, 2024

A Geospatial Analysis of Houston’s Blackout Sensitivity
In the heart of winter, the greater Houston region found itself plunged into darkness. The February 2021 blackout, a consequence of severe winter storms, left a metropolis…
Maxwell Patterson
Dec 15, 2023

Exploring the Dynamic Between Economic Freedom and Environmental Outcomes
A Statistical Climate Investigation
Maxwell Patterson
Dec 15, 2023

Thomas Fire

Thomas Fire and Air Quality Inspection
A geospatial analysis of Santa Barbara wildfire
Maxwell Patterson
Dec 13, 2023

The AI Paradox in Environmental Research - Balancing Innovation with Ecological Impact
In this epoch of technological evolution, artificial intelligence stands at the forefront, bringing forth a paradigm shift in all domains, including environmental research.…
Maxwell Patterson
Dec 9, 2023

The Expressivity of Neural Networks
Here’s a project I did in my Pattern Theory course in the spring semester of 2023. Note that there are a few typos in the project.
Maxwell Patterson
May 11, 2023
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