About

I am a Computational Scientist at the University of Chicago. My research interests are data visualization, sentiment analysis, high-performance computing and machine learning. I have a strong background in Mathematics and Statistics, and this website is to showcase my data science portfolio and document my data science blogs/reports I work on the side besides my primary research. More importantly, as data science is still a nascent field and notions are forming rapidly, my blog posts are served as a way to document my learning process, in large part for sharing useful information and in small part for my own future reference. If you are interested in discussing any of my blog post or anything related to data science, please feel free to reach out to me.

A note on the typeface

This site is set in Caslon. William Caslon issued his first specimen in London in 1734, and the colonies had no typefoundry, so every letter had to cross the Atlantic. Benjamin Franklin brought it over: he set the Pennsylvania Gazette in Caslon in 1737, the first American use of it, and bought hundreds of pounds of the type for his presses. That is how Caslon became the type Americans read, and why John Dunlap set the Declaration of Independence in it on the night of 4 July 1776. The engrossed parchment everyone pictures is handwritten; Caslon set the sheets that carried the words.

The face here is Libre Caslon Text, by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, under the SIL Open Font License. Not a facsimile of the metal: it follows the hand-lettered American Caslons of the 1960s, fitted for the screen.

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