Building What's Next https://kevinrpan.com What I've learned shipping AI products as a data scientist - This is a draft starter post – fill in with your real experiences and ship it! After years of working in data science, I’ve spent the last couple of years building products powered by Large Language Models. Here’s what I’ve learned. The gap between demo and product is enormous It... Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinrpan.com/2026-03-01-building-with-llms-lessons-learned/ https://kevinrpan.com/2026-03-01-building-with-llms-lessons-learned/ Shortcuts for everyday data tidying - Welcome to this post on data cleaning in R! This post will describe the data exploration process and introduce useful functions to streamline common tasks. Philosophy There are common steps that you may face in your data exploration: Import (messy) data Clean messy data Describe cleaned data Plot cleaned data... Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinrpan.com/2018-02-26-handy-package/ https://kevinrpan.com/2018-02-26-handy-package/ Introduction - Welcome to my blog. I’m inspired by the many many others like it, but these are my thoughts and ideas (if not mine originally, at least those on my mind). I believe that we all have a role in making society more empathetic, our lives more sustainable, and useful technologies... Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinrpan.com/2017-12-24-welcome/ https://kevinrpan.com/2017-12-24-welcome/ I’ll make a bold claim here - that the best in-office sport is foosball! Games are quick, usually 5-10 minutes, high-energy, and contained - there’s no chasing after escaped balls. This analysis allows any player, singles or doubles, to add his or her scores via a short Google form. The... Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://kevinrpan.com/2016-11-30-foosball/ https://kevinrpan.com/2016-11-30-foosball/