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A red and dark red background of cloud and smoke featuring an older Asian mother making a combat ready pose with arms stretched out. In the background is a mild-mannered but stern Asian man and an older woman in yellow wearing a paper with a black circle drawn on her forehead as she uts her elbow up in a blocking position. In the background is a figure with her hands pointed away from her at an angle while wearing a facemask and a low visor - the background of the poster of the film Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Every Data Point Everywhere All at Once

Three Key Lessons for My Data Career Beyond 2024
Statistics
Personal
Reflection
New Year
In a dark and scary universe, do you put everything on a bagel or do you wear a pair of googly eyes?
Dec 17, 2024
Ken Vu

A portrait of me against a wall wearing a nice business suit with my arms folded. I'm a young and average build Vietnamese-American man in my mid-20s with dyed blond hair at the top, black sideburns, and glasses.

2023 - A Year in Review, Resolution, and Reflection

Personal
Creativity
Reflection
New Year
2023 marked a year of several beginnings. A new chapter after college. A new change in perspective since then. A new resurgence in old routines brought anew. Yet, whatever…
Dec 31, 2023
Ken Vu

An initial physical draft I drew of the holiday card where I have drawn out a Christmas tree and a snowman with numbers marking coordiantes for different aprts of the Christmas tree as well as the measurements for the lengths, widths, and heights of different aspects of the tree. The top of the paper reads, 'GOAL: Draw an Xmas Tree w/ Shiny App'.

A Christmas Peril: Drawing Holiday Cards with ggplot2

R
ggplot2
Personal
Creativity
What do you do when you live in an area that hardly snows and you don’t have room for a Christmas tree to display in your house? The answer - subject yourself to your…
Dec 25, 2023
Ken Vu

A boxplot of life expectancy values by continent for 1952. We have a red line marking where the median life expectancy is for that year.

Exploring Life Expectancy by Continent Through gganimate

R
ggplot2
Data Visualization
Through my Master’s Degree in Statistics at California State University - East Bay, I got a brief introduction to the R package gganimate, which allows you to animate your gg…
Nov 17, 2023
Ken Vu

We have a white background with a set of calculus equations, derivatives, and graphs of equations on the left and on the right, we have the logo of the Python language (which consists of a blue cartoon snake looking to the left sitting on top of an upside down yellow cartoon snake looking to the right in such a way that they form a makeshift plus sign).

The Basics of Doing Differential Calculus in Python

Python
Mathematics
Calculus
From 2018 to 2020, while I was studying for my Bachelor’s of Science in Applied Mathematics at San Jose State University, I found myself constantly and tediously performing…
Oct 14, 2023
Ken Vu

Four Tricks for Enhancing ggplot2 Visualizations

R
ggplot2
Data Visualization
Throughout graduate school, I began to develop a fascination with R’s ggplot2 library which contains a variety of ways you can visualize your data (many of which are too…
Oct 11, 2023
Ken Vu

An illuminated spot in a dark room with quill standing upright while dipped in an inkwell next to a scroll.

How I ended up majoring in statistics

Grad School
Statistics
Personal
Creativity
This. This is my movie. This is my life. I hope you learn something and discover yourself.
- Tommy Wiseau, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad…
Oct 1, 2023
Ken Vu
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