Name: Lars Yencken
Type: User
Company: Our World In Data
Bio: Engineer and former researcher in human languages, machine learning and web systems. Head of Engineering at Our World In Data.
Twitter: larsyencken
Location: Oxford, UK
Blog: http://lars.yencken.org/
Lars Yencken's Projects
Shell tools for working with data
SimpleCV demo scripts teaching some fundamentals of Computer Vision.
A Vagrant image for SimpleCV.
A lightweight and minimal stats library for Python.
Search-by-similarity for Japanese kanji
Detect claps from your computer's microphone and act on them.
Web scraper for online recipe sites.
Check for violations of soft constraints in MySQL to keep data quality high.
Marelle deps for a standalone statsd server.
bug tracking and management software
Automatically uppercase SQL keywords as you type
Personal Wiki for Vim
Practice runs for building simple web tools.
Generate an HTTP Archive dump for a page's performance using Chrome and Selenium
A small demonstration page for the wide language index.
An index of public broadcasts tagged by their primary language.
A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API
script to install Debian 11, 10 and Ubuntu 20 LTS and 18.04 LTS with ZFS root on Hetzner VPS