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Frank Corso
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Data scientist and software founder who dabbles in game development and biology.
Switch gamer (SW-1099-1311-9622)

frankcorso.me • Gainesville, FL
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I’ve been playing through New Super Lucky’s Tale on the Switch and I’m loving some of the completely random scenes and levels it has.
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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#11 Rogue Flight
Steam capsule image. Says Rogue Flight with a spaceship to the right with some lasers shooting out. Some small explosions around behind the ship.
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I was curious to know how many bills a U.S. Congress member introduces or co-sponsors. It turns out that most don't introduce new bills often. Many have only introduced a handful since the start of this term.

#USPolitics #DataAnalysis
A scatterplot titled "119th Congress Bills Introduced Per Member" with subtitle of "A look at the number of bills sponsored (introduced) and cosponsored by members of the 119th Congress so far. The chart shows that most members have only sponsored a dozen or two bills this year but often cosponsor 100+. Though, there are many who have sponsored over 100 bills.
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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#10 Tiny Experiments by @neuranne.bsky.social
Book cover with title "tiny experiments" and subtitle of "How to Live freely in a goal-obsessed world". Author's name, Anne Laure Le Cunff, is shown with title of Neuroscientist and Founder of Ness Labs. Quote in corner says "I loved this profound, practical, and generous book." from Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks.
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#10 Haven Park
Steam capsule image for the game. Says "Haven Park" with a chicken in a white shirt to the left. In the background, there are campgrounds with tents, barrels, picnic tables, and more.
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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#9 The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
Book cover for The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai. Says “Every meal is a mystery” and shows a cat with front paws on a table looking at some sushi.
October 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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This week in my organic chemistry class we were extracting caffeine from tea. After filtering and doing multiple rounds using a separatory funnel, I got to use this new device, the rotatory evaporator.

I’m definitely enjoying these labs quite a bit.

#STEM #Chemistry
A rotary evaporator device that boils away a liquid through pressure changes leaving the solute in the flask which is in the water.
October 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This week in my Org Chem class, we are doing our first distillation lab.

#Chemistry
Distillation system that has a flask of liquid on the right sitting in a heat element. The vapors from the boiling liquid move up through the tubing and down the water cooled condenser until it turns back into a liquid and drips out into the graduated cylinder on the left.
September 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I earned my first Tableau certification this week! I've had several clients this year where I used Tableau, so I thought I'd go through their foundations certification to fill in some knowledge gaps.

#DataAnalysis #Tableau
Certificate for "Salesforce Certified Tableau Desktop Foundations". Says "Presented to Frank Corso for successfully completing certification requirements". Issued September 01, 2025.
September 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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#8 Pokémon Adventures Collector's Edition, Vol. 1.
Book cover saying "Pokémon Adventures 01" with "Collector's Edition" at the top. Shows a young man wearing a red jacket and a hat with a Pikachu on his shoulder.
August 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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#9 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. I had skipped this one on the GameCube when it first came out, so it was great that it came to Switch.

#Nintendo
Ending scene of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Several characters, including Mario, Peach, and Bowser, are on a stage that says "The End" with confetti everywhere.
August 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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In my next data story, I'm exploring how podcast episode duration differs across countries, categories, & other factors. An interesting trend is that episode length for top podcasts varies a lot across countries. A US podcast tends to be 50% longer than a Japanese podcast.

#DataAnalysis #Podcast
Bar chart showing countries and median episode length in minutes for top podcasts in that country. United States and Canada have the longest at around 45 minutes for episodes with Japan having the shortest at around 30 minutes per episode.
August 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Just discovered that Debian OS versions are all named after Toy Story characters (Debian 13 released a few days ago and is called Trixie). The Debian Project Leader was working at Pixar during the early versions.

#Linux #OS #Debian
August 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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My Python package, light-cache, passed 1,000 downloads! I know that's not much in the open-source world, but it's a fun milestone that some of my other packages haven't crossed.
Screenshot of the pepy tech page for the light-cache Python package that shows a tooltip saying "light-cache has been downloaded 1,044 times!". The page shows light-cache with a description of "A simple, lightweight caching library for disk-based or object-based caching".
August 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#8: Bastion. I started this game many years ago, but never finished it. When I picked up the Switch 2, I moved some indies that I never finished from my original Switch and am hoping to work through them.
Steam capsule art for Bastion. Says Bastion with a picture of the main character to the right.
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I got the early prototypes built for the cargo UI, dialogs, and the main deposit area. It's still early, and I haven't done any of the real UI/design, so it looks rough, but it's starting to come together.

#GameDev #BuildInPublic
July 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Chord diagrams are a fun way to visualize potential connections between different categorical values. I often use these during the early stages of analysis to identify interesting trends where two items have a lot more connections than others or ones that have many fewer connections.
Chord diagram of all the Pokémon types showing connections between types for Pokémon with two types. The connection that is most common is Normal-Flying, with some other notable ones being connections between bug and poison, between grass and poison, and between flying and bug.
July 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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#7: Once Upon A Jester. An amazing game. Highly recommend!
July 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#7 Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter. As someone working in data who is self-taught, I always pick up new concepts whenever I read a new statistics book, so I try to read through one now and then.
Book cover that says "The Art of Statistics: How to learn from data" on the front. Has a quote from Popular Science that says "This book should be required reading... A tour de force"
June 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Since the game I'm working on this time is a bit bigger than the tiny games I've done so far, I thought I'd explore how unit testing works in Godot. The GUT plugin made it super easy to get set up and running some initial tests.

#GameDev #Godot
Godot Unit Testing (GUT) panel in the Godot UI. Displays a button to Run All with a status message stating "Everything passed!" On the right, it displays a run summary indicating that two test scripts were executed, which included six tests with a total of 32 assertions.
June 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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#6 Duck Detective: The Secret Salami. Out of the games I've played so far this year, this one is definitely one of my favorites.
Main image for the game. Says "Duck Detective the secret salami" near the bottom with a magnifying glass on top of the "D". Shows a Duck in a detective outfit with some characters in the background, including an alligator in business attire holding a coffee mug.
June 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#6 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I didn't realize how long this book is. Definitely a good book, but it took a long while to get through it.
The book cover for The Count of Monte Cristo and has "Penguin Classics" and "Alexandre Dumas" on the cover. There is a picture of a few people outside of an old castle with some broken ships and a cloudy sky.
June 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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#5 Pilo and the Holobook. Interesting short game where you complete your holobook by scanning objects.
Main capsule art for the Pilo and the Holobook game showing a fox standing on its back feet with googles on its head and a large book on its back. The game title is shown to the right.
May 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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A tricky part of game development is that much of the initial work is on underlying systems & non-user-facing code. I've spent a lot of time on my game's unlocking/activating/deactivating upgrade system, but so far, I only have a button to show for it in my debug area.

#GameDev #BuildInPublic
Screenshot of a debug area in my very early in development space game that shows a fuel remaining percentage, a button that says "Deactivate Speed Booster Upgrade", a blue ship, and 2 gold items. All have simplistic placeholder visuals.
May 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I am working on a small podcast analysis project, and one of the things I am looking at is how long podcasts are in certain categories. I got a weird output for the Kids & Family Apple Charts & looked to see why. Turns out one of the top podcasts in the category is a 12-hour sound machine podcast 😅
Screenshot of part of Apple Podcasts charts for the Kids & Family category in the US. It shows 64th top podcast is a 12 hour sound machines for sleep podcast. Some others near it includes Evidence Based Birth, The Southern Tea, and Thomas & Friends Storytime.
May 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM