Blog – Emil Blaignan

Welcome to my blog! Here you’ll find posts about my thoughts, projects, and whatever else I’m currently exploring.

A Coin Mixture Paradox: The Interesting Case of Constant Variance

Bayesian Statistics

Probability

Recently, in my stochastic processes discussion, we went over a coin-flipping problem. In my probability course, we’ve covered many coin-toss problems, but I found this…

YieldCurveForecaster: 3D Yield Curve Modeling and Forecasting Dashboard

SQL

Plotly

Dash

A yield curve is a graph that shows the interest rates (yields) of bonds with different maturity dates. It typically represents U.S. Treasury bonds and helps indicate the…

Detecting Fake News with Deep Learning: A Keras-Based Text Classification Approach

Tensorflow

Pandas

NumPy

NLTK

In this project, we’ll attempt to classify news articles as legitimate or fake news. This project uses deep learning techniques in Keras to classify news articles as real or…

Cat or Dog?: Image Classification in Keras with TensorFlow Datasets, Data Augmentation, & Transfer Learning

Tensorflow

Keras

NumPy

Image classification is a fundamental problem in deep learning, enabling medical diagnosis, self-driving cars, and automated image tagging applications. In this blog post…

JAX-Driven Heat Diffusion: Sparse and Vectorized PDE Simulation

JAX

Scipy

NumPy

Heat diffusion is a fundamental process in physics and engineering, described by the heat equation, a partial differential equation (PDE) modeling thermal energy transfer.…

Building a Visually Appealing Message Bank Web App with Dash & SQLite

Dash

SQL

Dash is a Python framework for building web applications using Flask, Plotly, and React. It enables developers to create interactive web apps with minimal front-end…

Data-Driven Movie Recommendations: Scrapy Web Scraping and Actor Network Graphs with NetworkX

Scrapy

NetworkX

Plotly

Pandas

NumPy

The TMDB (The Movie Database) is a comprehensive online database that provides detailed information on movies, TV shows, actors, and production crews. In this project, we…

Exploring NOAA Climate Data: SQL Queries, Trend Analysis, and Advanced Visualizations with Plotly

SQL

Plotly

Pandas

NumPy

The NOAA Climate Data provides an extensive record of global temperature trends, collected from thousands of weather stations across various geographic regions. This dataset…

Exploring Palmer Penguins Data: Seaborn Data Visualization With Heat Maps

Pandas

Seaborn

Matplotlib

The Palmer Penguins dataset contains measurements of penguin species from the Palmer Archipelago in Antarctica, including numeric measurements like culmen(bill) length…