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Frank Corso
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Data scientist and software founder who dabbles in game development and biology.
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Apparently, Meetup now displays ads in any emails from their platform. An event attendee for GNV Tech Chats sent me this screenshot of a scammy-type ad in the email that announced the new event I just scheduled.
Email form Meetup that says GNV Tech Chats scheduled a new event. But, the entire top half of the view is a large ad that says "Wrap Aluminum Foil Around Your Feet, Here's Why".
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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I really like how some nonfiction books are starting to include comics in them. I am reading Out of Your Mind by @dwaynegodwin.bsky.social and @phdcomics.com and there are comics throughout each chapter and some comic interludes.

#Booksky 🧪🧠
A page in a book with a section discussing brain research in the 1800's. The page has a small comic showing a person sitting in a chair with a surgeon on their left, holding a saw, and a person on the right holding clips connected to something electrical. The caption says "Gulp, not a good time to be a brain research volunteer.
January 4, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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#13 Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
Steam capsule image for Duck Detective: the ghost of glamping. Says the game's name and shows the two main characters, Duke Detective and Freddy (the alligator), as well as 3 characters featured in its story: A white rabbit, a blue pigeon, and an orange goat.
December 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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#12 Transistor
Transistor main image. Says Transistor with the character named Red along the right side, with red hair, blue eyes, and holding a large device.
December 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I often have content ideas or snippets I want to post to my site that don't need a whole blog post. I came across a site with a "Notes" section, and decided to add something similar to my own site.

For the 1st note, I added an SQL snippet to find the largest MySQL tables in a DB

#SQL #DataAnalysis
Screenshot of new Notes section with subtitle that says "A place for code snippets, random thoughts, and other tiny posts.". Has an entry titled "Find largest tables in a MySQL database".
December 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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One can always tell when I have an upcoming opening for new client work as that's the only time I log into LinkedIn 😅
LinkedIn post impression chart showing the last 90 days. For most of September and October, there were nearly zero impressions as no posts were made. Then, November and December show a large increase in impressions as I started posting again on LinkedIn.
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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#13 Pokémon Adventures Collector's Edition, Vol. 3
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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A while ago, I built a tool that connects to business tools & sends me a daily email with the main metrics (screenshot uses random data). I recently added an in-depth weekly report. I'm thinking about turning it into a small SaaS. If this sounds useful to you, let me know.

#BuildInPublic #Marketing
Screenshot of an email that says "Your Daily Scorecard". Has sections for "Google Analytics", Bluesky, Stripe, and Mailchimp with some metrics listed for each.
November 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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#12 Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Book cover for Sophie's World. Says "A novel about the history of philosophy". Author's name, Jostein Gaarder, is listed along with "Translated by Paulette Meller". Illustration shows a clock, a rabbit, a greek statue, some letters, and a lot of branches and vines.
November 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#11 Pokémon Adventures Collector's Edition, Vol. 2.
Cover of Pokemon Adventures 2. Says Story by Hidenori Kusaka and Art by Mato. Shows one of the main characters, Blue, with several of his pokemon.
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I mostly use PyCharm as my IDE, but I've heard a lot about Positron lately, so I thought I'd give it a try. I really like how integrated Streamlit and Quarto are. Being able to click the play button and automatically start the app and open the viewer is great.
Screenshot of Positron IDE. Has a Python file open on the left with some Streamlit code. Has a terminal open that is running the streamlit run command under the code file. Along the right is a browser view showing the dashboard.
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I’ve been playing through New Super Lucky’s Tale on the Switch and I’m loving some of the completely random scenes and levels it has.
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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#11 Rogue Flight
Steam capsule image. Says Rogue Flight with a spaceship to the right with some lasers shooting out. Some small explosions around behind the ship.
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I was curious to know how many bills a U.S. Congress member introduces or co-sponsors. It turns out that most don't introduce new bills often. Many have only introduced a handful since the start of this term.

#USPolitics #DataAnalysis
A scatterplot titled "119th Congress Bills Introduced Per Member" with subtitle of "A look at the number of bills sponsored (introduced) and cosponsored by members of the 119th Congress so far. The chart shows that most members have only sponsored a dozen or two bills this year but often cosponsor 100+. Though, there are many who have sponsored over 100 bills.
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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#10 Tiny Experiments by @neuranne.bsky.social
Book cover with title "tiny experiments" and subtitle of "How to Live freely in a goal-obsessed world". Author's name, Anne Laure Le Cunff, is shown with title of Neuroscientist and Founder of Ness Labs. Quote in corner says "I loved this profound, practical, and generous book." from Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks.
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#10 Haven Park
Steam capsule image for the game. Says "Haven Park" with a chicken in a white shirt to the left. In the background, there are campgrounds with tents, barrels, picnic tables, and more.
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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#9 The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
Book cover for The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai. Says “Every meal is a mystery” and shows a cat with front paws on a table looking at some sushi.
October 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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This week in my organic chemistry class we were extracting caffeine from tea. After filtering and doing multiple rounds using a separatory funnel, I got to use this new device, the rotatory evaporator.

I’m definitely enjoying these labs quite a bit.

#STEM #Chemistry
A rotary evaporator device that boils away a liquid through pressure changes leaving the solute in the flask which is in the water.
October 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This week in my Org Chem class, we are doing our first distillation lab.

#Chemistry
Distillation system that has a flask of liquid on the right sitting in a heat element. The vapors from the boiling liquid move up through the tubing and down the water cooled condenser until it turns back into a liquid and drips out into the graduated cylinder on the left.
September 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I earned my first Tableau certification this week! I've had several clients this year where I used Tableau, so I thought I'd go through their foundations certification to fill in some knowledge gaps.

#DataAnalysis #Tableau
Certificate for "Salesforce Certified Tableau Desktop Foundations". Says "Presented to Frank Corso for successfully completing certification requirements". Issued September 01, 2025.
September 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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#8 Pokémon Adventures Collector's Edition, Vol. 1.
Book cover saying "Pokémon Adventures 01" with "Collector's Edition" at the top. Shows a young man wearing a red jacket and a hat with a Pikachu on his shoulder.
August 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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#9 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. I had skipped this one on the GameCube when it first came out, so it was great that it came to Switch.

#Nintendo
Ending scene of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Several characters, including Mario, Peach, and Bowser, are on a stage that says "The End" with confetti everywhere.
August 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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In my next data story, I'm exploring how podcast episode duration differs across countries, categories, & other factors. An interesting trend is that episode length for top podcasts varies a lot across countries. A US podcast tends to be 50% longer than a Japanese podcast.

#DataAnalysis #Podcast
Bar chart showing countries and median episode length in minutes for top podcasts in that country. United States and Canada have the longest at around 45 minutes for episodes with Japan having the shortest at around 30 minutes per episode.
August 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Just discovered that Debian OS versions are all named after Toy Story characters (Debian 13 released a few days ago and is called Trixie). The Debian Project Leader was working at Pixar during the early versions.

#Linux #OS #Debian
August 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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My Python package, light-cache, passed 1,000 downloads! I know that's not much in the open-source world, but it's a fun milestone that some of my other packages haven't crossed.
Screenshot of the pepy tech page for the light-cache Python package that shows a tooltip saying "light-cache has been downloaded 1,044 times!". The page shows light-cache with a description of "A simple, lightweight caching library for disk-based or object-based caching".
August 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM