today I rebuilt my blog
Today was a full reset and cleanup day for my site.
Hi, I am @jakexshi.
It's never too late to start building! I am here to share my journey.
Good Inside: What If a Parenting Book Could Talk Back?
I recently became a father, and like most new parents, I found myself desperately searching for guidance. A friend recommended Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy, and it quickly became one of those books that shifts how...
Why Now
I’m getting back into writing and building after years of mostly staying quiet. There are two honest answers.
Hi World!
I’m starting a blog. Again.
Focus
There are too many distractions. Social media, news cycles, Slack notifications, the endless scroll of content that feels productive but isn’t.
Exploratory Data Analysis with Python and Yahoo Finance
Following up on my REIT analysis post, I wanted to go deeper into exploratory data analysis (EDA). Same dataset — ROIC, SKT, TCO, SPG, and MAC — but this time I’m walking through the full EDA workflow: descriptive sta...
Analysing REIT Stocks with Python
I’ve been looking at real estate investment trusts (REITs) lately and wanted to do some basic analysis on a few tickers. The goal: pull stock data from Yahoo Finance, look at adjusted closing prices, and start getting...
Lump Sum vs. Dollar Cost Averaging: An Apple Stock Analysis
I’ve been curious about a classic investing question: is it better to invest a lump sum all at once, or spread it out over time (dollar cost averaging)? Instead of reading more opinions about it, I decided to just loo...
Your First Step-by-Step Machine Learning Project
I’ve been learning machine learning for a few months now, and the hardest part isn’t the math — it’s knowing where to start. Most tutorials assume you already know what you’re doing. This post is for people like me wh...
My First Blog Post Using an IPython Notebook
This is it — my first post written entirely as an IPython notebook and published through Nikola. The workflow is:
Setting Up a Blog with Nikola, IPython, and GitHub
I finally got a blog running. It took longer than I expected.