December 13, 2022

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YouTubers can typically be analyzed with the fairly straightforward metrics of subscribers, views, and engagement. However, YouTubers directly looking to create recipes are especially interesting as they also want audiences to replicate their recipes and buy their cookbooks. In this project, we ask the question of if we can determine if YouTube recipe creators are…

YouTube Recipe Content
December 13, 2022

Understanding the Culinary Side of YouTube

Github (Primarily with Brian Cha, and with extraordinarily minimal assistance from Liz Johnson, Marc Rothken, Shreya Dasari) Motivations Recipe content is especially interesting as one of the ultimate goals of the recipe creator is for audiences to replicate their work. This opens up avenues for much interesting inspection of how audiences engage with content creators.…

YouTube Recipe Content
December 13, 2022

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Here are some woodworking projects I’ve done, primarily concerned with putting together cheap but shoddy climbing equipment.

Woodworking
December 13, 2022

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We explore how a baseline fully connected neural network, a long short-term memory neural network, reservoir computing, and a Lagrangian neural network compare on the task of forecasting chaotic motion, namely the prediction of the path of a double pendulum.

PeNNdulum
May 11, 2022

Wood Holds and Hangboards

* Special thanks to Hardy and the Pomona College machine shop for help on these ones Hangboards A pretty nifty tool to have outside is a warm up board that you can pull on and get your fingers good to go. You can hang them from a tree and do some rudimentary hangs, or brace…

Woodworking
May 11, 2022

2021-2022 Random Assortment

Here are some random electronics projects from 2021 – 2022. For Thermodynamics/Statistical Mechanics: A Rudimentary Sous Vide A Sous Vide is a type of cooking apparatus that holds a bath of water at a specific temperature. You place the food you want cooked in this water-bath, and it eventually comes to thermal equilibrium with the…

Projects 2021 – 2022
May 11, 2022

Elm City Stories

Introduction and Motivations Elm City Stories is an interactive video game developed by researchers at the play2PREVENT lab. It attempts to reduce risk of substance use and educate players (11-14 year olds) on sexual health. Players create an avatar and play through various mini-games that seek to model real-life situations and involve issues such as…

Elm City Stories
May 10, 2022

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*This project was done with Dylan, Guy, and Taylor for UCLA Datafest 2022. We use general statistical methods and neural networks to investigate the trends between player engagement in the Elm City Stories game and their general improvement on a drug and sexual health questionnaire. We conclude that players who spend more time in the…

Elm City Stories
December 5, 2021

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With the rise of coronavirus infection rates and social impacts over the recent time period, we investigate whether individuals who upload YouTube videos have artificially/unconsciously created content that trends more towards relative positivity or negativity as infection rates increase and time passes. Is there any relation between sentiment and government action towards virus? Is there…

Youtube and Covid
December 5, 2021

Sentiments of YouTube Videos Over Covid-19

Repository (Code and Data-sets)Covid – 19 Data-set General Overview In this study, we investigate the association between the development of coronavirus and the sentiment score of the top 10 most popular YouTube videos published before and during the coronavirus pandemic. We wanted to see whether popular content creators were publishing more positive videos or…

Youtube and Covid