Lucas Allen, Charlotte, North Carolina Data Scientist

I am a data scientist, lover of mathematics, lifelong learner, Nintendo aficionado, and LOST apologist.

Look Ma, I'm on Hugo!

By Lucas on March 1, 2018

The last couple months I’ve been playing around with migrating this blog over from WordPress to Hugo, the static site generator built on Go. Due to “reasons,” many of which probably don’t apply to the average WordPress blogger, and some of which involved me being finicky about certain expectations, this turned out to be more of a hassle than I anticipated. While the new version of the site has been up and running for over a month now, I’ve been slow to post because I’ve continued to spend my time tweaking and improving, but I can feel the old itch to write.

Keep on Movin’ On

By Lucas on October 8, 2017

This blog has gone pretty quiet the last 6 months or so, which usually signals I’m up to something new. In fact, this time it’s a move across the country for another career move. My new opportunity takes me to a part of the country which is a big change for a guy who’s never lived outside of rural Central Illinois. Heading South I’m now located in the Queen City of Charlotte, NC.

Retro Game Retrieval Engine Design

By Lucas on July 19, 2017

I’ve got a new Shiny web app that I’ve embedded on another site where I’m doing some experimental things, and I wanted to talk generally about how I created it. The web app can be found at the following link that allows the user to do interactive searches for similar classic games for home consoles from what are generally known as the third generation (NES, Sega Master System) through the sixth generation (Wii, PS2, Xbox).

Back2School with Vectors, Cosine Similarity, and Word2Vec

By Lucas on May 12, 2017

Tomorrow, I’ll be making a return visit to the high school where I spent a decade in the mathematics department as a teacher. I’ve got the chance to speak to ten classes over the course of six class periods and tell them a little bit about what I do as a data scientist. Since many of the students will be familiar with concepts like vectors and trigonometry, I’ve decided to do an activity involving the Python gensim package and Word2Vec.