My first post - Motivations

Sep 25, 2023

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Hello there!

Since this web framework nicely lends itself to a blog, I decided to write a little blog post, outlining the reasons why I created this website in the first place!

1. I had never written a website before, and wanted to challenge myself to learn something new.
   • I had never used Jekyll (built on the Ruby language)
   • I had never used GitHub pages
   • I have never taken a class on web design
     • I think is quite obvious, judging by the simplicity of this website 😂
2. I wanted to showcase my technical skills and ability to learn new things independently
   • I built my website over a few sporadic working sessions
   • I probably spent a total of 4 hours including reading the documentation
3. I felt like, as a professional data scientist, having a nice place to showcase my work was important
   • It seems that I’m not alone in feeling this way
   • Portfolio websites are becoming more and more common
   • I have always wanted to do this, but never had the time

I very much intend to keep building out this website in bits and pieces, and if you’re reading this, I hope you find the journey at at least mildly entertaining!

In the future I would like to add some pages that showcase actual projects. I may even try to bake in a page that serves a machine learning model, but I need to learn more about what is possible with Jekyll and GitHub Pages before I can do that.

In the meantime, I have added a page that shows off my resume.

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Cheers, James H.