Hi, my name is Dustin Cole. I’m a data guy. I like to tinker.
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How the American dinner table has changed since 1909
An exploration of 113 years of USDA food data.
What's Killing Us?
Exploring a dataset with 18,912,141 American deaths, organized as one row per year of age, and the causes of death from age 0 to 100.
Two Drafts, Same Time, One Me
Cloning myself to save my fantasy season, and an analytical deep dive into the 2026 fantasy football draft
I put 4.6 billion years on one page
I jammed 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history onto one page. It does not scale nicely.
Classroom Edition #4: Why Do AI Models Hallucinate?
Hallucinations: what they actually are, the three reasons they happen, and what reduces them.
Thirteen projects in three days
I'm trying to automate myself out of a job. In roughly three days, I built thirteen projects. Almost all of them are working applications you can open right now... some of them are still works in progress.
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