CvB Things
Welcome!
Like most of the content herein, I made this site out of a combination of curiosity and boredom. Much of what you'll find here are my hobbies, projects, and stuff I do in my spare time.
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It's my little corner to share stuff with the world.
2024 Election Map
In this insane election season, I decided to make my own election map. It takes the most current data from FiveThirtyEight.com, sorts it, analyzes it, and produces an up-to-date map. In the sidebar, you can filter the dataset by timeline, pollster rating, candidate match-up, and more. It also offers the option to give the calculations different weights.
The map has two display options: National, and By State. The National map filters the data only for nation-wide polling results and then fills the entire map according to the winner. The By States map breaks the data down state by state and shows each state's winner, colored by their party and shaded according to the percentage of the vote. The hover text shows individual candidate and electoral college data.
FactoBASE!
This is a web-based version of the FactoBASE mobile app, more or less. This was one of my first projects using the Streamlit framework. All of the back-end code is the same as for the mobile app, but the webapp includes a lot more history and description. It's very tongue-in-cheek, with (bad) jokes hidden all over the place.
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The silly idea of FactoBASE started back when I was working nights. Along with a colleague and friend of mine, we frequently had time to kill, and occasionally did so by presenting nonsense puzzles to each other. In such a manner, one night we were discussing number systems using different bases. We wondered what it would be like if instead of every digit being of the same base, each digit was one base higher than the last. What would it look like? How would it work?
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So here we are, a silly idea turned into a mostly useless app, entirely for my own amusement.