cdc-wonder-cod is a Shiny app to visualize CDC WONDER’s Underlying Cause of Death dataset. This app was featured in a guest lecture I delivered at Rollins College on modern data visualization and communication techniques. Self-hosted on my homelab with Docker compose and served via Cloudflare tunneling.

SPOOKI-DB is a simple database explorer inspired by the SCP Foundation that uses JavaScript to query and load dynamic content from an Airtable backend. Content for SPOOKI-DB is generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-E 3.

Vex Mythoclast: Containerization for Survival Analysis in R was a project to reverse-engineer and model the drop rate for an exceptionally rare in-game item in the Destiny 2 videogame. The analysis employed Docker and R to scrape and analyze extracted API data in parallel. This write-up was published to Reddit r/DestinyTheGame and received over 3.2K upvotes and 40+ awards.

strbck.github.io is the website you’re currently browsing. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages and served using Jekyll. The theme for this site was originally designed by b2a3e8. This site serves as a personal blog and portfolio for various web development, data engineering, and analytics projects. Now supports Google Analytics 4!