Don’t connect your phone to rental cars
I was in Detroit, Michigan last week for the SAE World Congress. I helped organize a session, presented a paper, and got an award. A pretty productive week. I spent most my time seeing technical papers...
View ArticleTechnical Computing Wars – MATLAB vs. Python
This is the first post on data science for this blog. See this post for an idea what this blog is about. Programming is immensely important for data analysis. I didn’t start programming until I was in...
View ArticleKaggle.com locked my account then stumped be with math puzzles
Kaggle.com is a website that was made famous by hosting high profile data prediction competitions for cash prizes. The idea is that companies can host competitions to solve real-world prediction...
View ArticleActive Safety – What it is and Why you want it on your Next New Car
Safer Cars There are a whole host of safety systems that have made vehicles a lot safer than they were 50 years ago. Seat belts still to this day are one of the most effective safety measures ever...
View ArticleHow long does a game of ‘Chutes and Ladders’ take?
Chutes and Ladders is a classic children’s game. It’s easy to understand and gives you the illusion that you have any control of the outcome. Players roll a 6-sided dice and move through a board with...
View ArticleAppend Percent Symbol (%) on to Axes Labels in MATLAB
I am a graph perfectionist. I hate when graphs look bad. One pet peeve of mine is that it is so hard to give axes labels percentage signs in MATLAB. Here’s how to do it. I’m not going to claim it is...
View ArticleMATLAB function to tabulate values with weights
MATLAB has the tabulate function that prints (or returns a matrix/cell) a (one way) frequency table. It works sort of like SAS’s proc freq, except without cross tabulation. One super annoying part of...
View ArticleWriting CSVs from MATLAB
MATLAB added a much needed data structure, tables, in R2013b. Tables are much like R’s data.frame object, allowing for columns of the table to be different data types (e.g. number and strings). This is...
View ArticleI’m back!
After 5 years working in industry at Toyota, and almost 6 years posting on this blog, I can officially announce I am back. For the next few weeks, I am in between jobs (“fun-employed“?). Although I am...
View ArticleTruck crash scenarios visualized in google colab
One topic I have been more interested in lately is commercial truck collisions. In my past research on crash avoidance systems, I had mostly focused on passenger vehicles. For passenger vehicles,...
View Article
