Projects
A selection of technical projects involving machine learning, dashboard analytics, and predictive modelling. Each card includes a short description, a skills snapshot, and a link to explore the full work.
Evaluating Shazam-Style Fingerprinting and CLAP Audio Embeddings Under Degraded Conditions
A head-to-head between Shazam's fingerprinting and LAION-CLAP's neural embeddings, stress-tested on ~18k degraded GTZAN tracks – noise, pitch shifts, lo-fi filtering, the works. Turns out pitch-shifting breaks both music-tuned models, while the generalist CLAP – never built for music at all – comes out on top.
Discogs Recommendation Model
A personalised vinyl recommender built on the full Discogs catalog (API/Data dumps). It syncs my collection and wantlist, builds a candidate pool from label and artist affinity, then re-ranks using audio embeddings pulled from YouTube – so picks actually sound like what I own, not just what's tagged similarly. Community-hype caps keep it underground.
Apple Music Listening Analytics Dashboard
A Tableau Public (i.e free tier with limited functionality) dashboard visualising my listening habits across songs, artists, albums, and genres. Includes parameters, ranking logic, calculated fields, and an integrated UX-focused layout for fun/dynamic analysis – happy clicking!
Story time / Analysis
October 2025
Just after I moved to NYC, I started collecting my Apple Music listening data at the beginning of October, and I find it quite apt that my most listened to song for that month was 'Moving Out' by Vacations. A song about leaving home by a band from my hometown of Newcastle, Australia seems quite appropriate for that point in my life. It also looks like I mainly listened to this track on Sundays and Thursdays (Sunday listening to beat the gloomy end of the weekend homesickness followed by Thursday listening to get amped for the coming weekend in my new home?).
March 2026
This one is quite funny — my friends and I went and saw the Australian band Sticky Fingers late March at the Brooklyn Paramount. Clearly after that show all I could listen to for the rest of the month was their 2013 breakout hit 'Learn to Fly'.
April 2026
The return of Babyfather (one of Dean Blunt's many side projects). I inhaled 'icl' 100+ times in the last half of April alone. Whilst the song is aided by being roughly 2 minutes long, its instantly catchy beat made it hard to break the loop. April was also the month I discovered bar italia and completed a round trip to Australia in under a week, where both outbound and return flights were on Monday, meaning there was lots of spare time flying to get into some new music.