Michael Grantham
About
When I started programming as a teenager, I was primarily interested in web development, and I started this website for some of my projects. I don’t do web development anymore, but I still enjoy doing different projects for fun outside of work.
Professionally, I work as a Quantitative Software Engineer, writing high performance Monte Carlo Simulatons to enhance sports betting pricing models in C# and Rust.
Previously, I worked as a Mathematical Analyst, conducting mathematical and statistical analysis of gambling devices and games. I conducted statistical analysis of game data with R and Python to determine the presence of skill and wrote Monte Carlo simulations of games in C++.
I like to do projects about interesting things involving programming, math, or statistics, and have some things I think are worth sharing with the world few visitors of this webiste, below.
Projects
Storm Tracks
Storm Tracks is a visualizer for tropical storms and hurricanes (tropical cyclones). The National Hurricane Center (NHC) combines a variety of models to create tropical storm predictions. This application pulls the data from the NHC four times daily and displays the results from the models which generate the NHC predictions.
Storm TracksMancala AI
I wanted to make a model to play the game Mancala so I would stop losing so much. I created an evolutionary algorithm with PyTorch to play mancala based on the current game state.
Jupyter Notebook"Square Q"; Visualizing ANOVA Post Hoc Analysis
The Tukey HSD Test is a great way to find significant differences between groups in categorical data. As the number of groups increases, the number of comparisons quickly increases. This is a method for visualizing these comparisons more efficiently.
See DetailsChaotic Dynamical Systems
As a student I took an independent study course where undergraduates are paired with a graduate student mentor. Students study a topic in mathematics not taught in any other undergraduate course and give a talk at the conclusion of the semester. My talk covered chaotic dynamical systems.
PresentationOld Projects
Unfortunately, I don't have the time to maintain all of my old projects. Here is a catalog of some particularly interesting projects I worked on in the past.
Spotify Graph (2020-2022)
Spotify Graph was a web app built with NodeJS that produced a histogram of your Spotify library. Each album cover was stacked by year.
GeoCloud (2016-2018)
GeoCloud was a full stack collaborative mapping application built with PHP as a high school project that allowed users to collect and share custom geospatial data with a mobile interface and export the data for use in other mapping software.
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