Cormac Dacker

Personal Projects

• 18650 Battery Life Testing

  A comparison of traditional survival analysis techniques against machine learning models to predict the life of a battery.

  Accelerated Life Testing - Survival Analysis - Machine Learning - Data Visualization

• PDX Housing Analysis

  An exploration of the PDX housing market (july 2020 - july 2021) and performing a survival analysis of the market in addition to a predictive pricing model.

  Survival Analysis - Applied Machine Learning - Data Visualization

• Pronoun Bias in 19th Century Novels

  Using POS tagging for pronouns to detect objectification, and combined with NER to predict the gender of a character in a text.

  Spark NLP - Spacy - NLP

• Job Search

  Scrapes Jobs From Indeed, LinkedIn, Blind, and SimplyHired. Then leverages users skills in a weighted algorithm to find the best job for them. Also includes a survival analysis of the job market.

  Selenium - SQL - Machine Learning

• C and Java like interpreter

  A full interpreter for a language that is a mix between C and Java. Includes a lexer, parser, and interpreter.

  Scheme - Interpreter - Lexer - Parser

• WW2 U-Boat Survival Analysis

  Scraped together a dataset of every U-Boat in WW2 and their fate. Then performed a survival analysis on the dataset to determine the best course of action for a U-Boat captain.

  Survival Analysis - Beautiful Soup - Data Visualization

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