Blog – Yu-En Hsu

An up-to-date list of states and territories of the United States to use in forms

Names and abbreviations of 50 states + 1 federal district + 5 territories in JSON array and object, updated in 2023

Predicting Use of Contraception in Asia with Machine Learning Algorithms

Using survey micro-data from the 6th MICS, I built classification models to predict the use of contraception from demographic and socio-economic factors. The report was finished in late 2020 for predictive analysis class in grad school.

Export Apple Health Data and Visualise with Tableau

As a long-term iPhone user with years of activity recordings and tons of free time during quarantine, I exported my Apple Health data, processed them in Python, and plugged them in Tableau Public to see how many steps I’ve taken daily from 2016 to 2020.

GreenBeans: Development Proposal for A More Sustainable World

Proposal submission to 2020 Geneva Challenge, a contest for graduate students to address the challenges of social inclusion. My team and I applied various evaluation approaches, such as needs assessment and theory of change, and had a great time putting what we learnt into practice.

Automate Data Collection with Selenium in Python

In this tutorial, I shared how I used Selenium to automate Google Chrome to collect data in Python. I needed to iterate through a date-picker day-by-day and a dropdown list as search criteria, click submit button, wait for result, and extract data from returned table. It may have taken longer to figure out the entire process than to just do it manually, but where’s the fun in that?