mark michael

Building Transcendent Products

product

A common question in product interviews are “What makes a good product?” or “What’s your favorite product and why?” My go-to answer has always been the Kayak app. I found it…

TidyTuesday 2026-02-10 Winter Olympics Schedule

data science

tidytuesday

rstats

olympics

TidyTuesday is a weekly data visualization challenge. This week, we are exploring the 2026 Winter Olympics schedule to find patterns in event types, times, and medal events…

Deploying Innovation: Making Healthcare Technology Billable and Integrated

health

billing

product

Integrating cutting-edge medical technology into existing healthcare practices presents a dual challenge: ensuring its clinical efficacy and making it a viable, billable…

TidyTuesday 2026-02-03 Edible Plants

data science

tidytuesday

rstats

TidyTuesday is a weekly data visualization challenge. The details for this week can be found here.

EKG Digitization

health

data processing

rstats

I occasionally peruse available Kaggle competitions to see if there’s something fun to explore. This week, I came across this competition around converting EKG images into…

Thanksgiving, but make it Gantt

cooking

mermaid

fun

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. After reading the impassioned arguments of Brunch is Hell: How to save the world by throwing a dinner party, For about the past…

TidyTuesday 2025-11-18 - Sherlock Holmes

data science

tidytuesday

rstats

TidyTuesday is a weekly data visualization challenge. The details for this week can be found here.

From the Furrows - building a grownup backend

development

harvvest

Over a year ago, I committed my first lines of code for our new app. At that point I had used R for advanced data analysis work and dabbled into building my first…