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Posts and project write-ups.

rePRICE: Know What It’s Worth Before You Name a Number

March 06, 2026

Pricing used inventory is a guessing game—until you ground it in real market data. rePRICE scrapes live eBay listings and uses AI to reason over actual comparables, producing confident price estimates in under a second.

IKEA Opens in Alabama: A Sales Impact Model for Birmingham Furniture Retailers

February 25, 2026

IKEA opened its first Alabama store in Huntsville on February 25, 2026—about 100 miles north of Birmingham. I built an interactive forecasting tool that models how that entry is likely to affect existing Birmingham furniture retailers, using a gradient boosting pipeline trained on economic indicators and a configurable IKEA disruption overlay.

Can You See a Bearing Failure Coming? A Causal Monitoring Pipeline on the NASA/IMS Dataset

February 25, 2025

Using causal Gaussian filtering, statistical feature extraction, and PCA, I built a bearing degradation monitor that only looks backward in time — the same constraint a live sensor dashboard would face. PC1 trends clearly upward before failure, and the model generalizes to a second experiment it has never seen.

Birmingham MSA Business Penetration: How the Metro Compares to Peer MSAs

February 23, 2025

Using Census County Business Patterns data, I compared the Birmingham-Hoover metro’s industry mix to 14 peer metros—Indianapolis, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Kansas City, Buffalo, Rochester, Cleveland, Memphis, Virginia Beach, Richmond, Milwaukee, Louisville, Nashville, and Huntsville—where we’re over- or under-represented and why it matters.

Denver Metro: Where Buyers Get the Most Walkability for Their Dollar

January 15, 2025

Data-driven neighborhood intel for Denver-area agents: which census tracts deliver the best walkability-to-price value—so you can match buyers to the right areas and position listings with confidence.