I personally have struggled in finding early support for my crazy projects. What happens is when you get that awesome idea, you either get shot down by the people around you, or you get busy then forget about it. Then later on you find out that someone else launched a startup similar to what you had in mind. That is so frustrating, you say to yourself, I wish I acted on it.
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A Spatiotemporal Covid19 Risk Index
What I was doing during Covid19 Quarantine? Check out the web app here:
http://sets-cloud.com/covrex/
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The Case for Makers Against Covid19
Stay Calm and Keep Building
In the fight against Covid19, as an individual you can help on many fronts. You can help find a cure & vaccine. You can help inform the public and policy makers so they can take better public health decisions. You can help healthcare workers and hospitals treat the infected patients. At the very least you can help by being a concerned law abiding citizen. Now, if you have makers skills, you can help in ways no one else can.
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Lessons on Giving Workshops
I recently gave a 3 hours workshop with the team of Beirut AI exploring how to think about Artificial Intelligence problems from a business perspective. We covered topics like AI in the business world, AI in the Middle East and North Africa, dived into analytical visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI, and finally solved a consulting business case exercise about a bank marketing campaigns.
Lessons learned on how to prepare for a workshop:
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Draw a flower with Python
Playing with Python Turtle graphics
[Read More]Experiments in combustion in grad school
I started my research at the Combustion and Propulsion Research Lab in Indiana University Purdue University under the supervision of Dr Razi Nalim in the beginning of 2015. The next 2 years that followed were a tremendous learning experience. I had been away from academia for 5 years and diving back into textbooks and theories was not easy, however I found a fulfilling challenge in experimental research in the lab like with pulse jets, flame throwers, wave rotors, combustion chambers and much more.
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Python web application with Dash
Project goal is to create a web application to quickly access Oracle database data. The web app is created using Dash by Plotly library which makes it really easy to deliver fully functional web application without going through all the javascript details.
[Read More]FANSIS, a Fan ANalySIS tool
In paper DOI: 10.1243/09544062JMES1196 by Dr Epple on “Design of radial impellers: a combined extended analytical and numerical method”, a method is described for the analysis of centrifugal fan. Dr Epple suggest creating a spreadsheet as a conceptual analysis for a fan design.
After creating a spreadsheet with all the relevant equations, I got frustrated with the constant editing that needs to be done on excel, and decided to implement the the design equation code in python.
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Datalogger and AC switch
Making a datalogger
Used Adafruit datalogger shield with arduino and added an SSR relay to be able switch on and off AC current.
[Read More]Milling a wiper for a metal 3D printer
Cuts
Finished wiper
Chips
Machining aluminum 6061 for a friend who is working on a metal 3D printer. You got to love the mountain of chips! Squaring off big parts is always an issue, specially that you have to clamp down the parts and make sure it is aligned with a dial indicator.
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