A Project Portfolio To Grow on Harshvardhan

Macchi Trash

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A tiny macOS menu-bar app that shows animated flies buzzing around your Trash when it has items.

Page to Markdown

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A lightweight browser extension that converts webpages to Markdown, plain text, or downloadable .md files.

Good Sign-Offs / अच्छी विदाइयाँ

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

2,000+ English email sign-offs from Are.na and 40+ original Hindi sign-offs, in a beautiful randomizer.

Kalam

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A native macOS menu-bar app for speech-to-text transcription — completely local, private, and free.

TextSage

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A Chrome extension that lets you explain or fact-check any selected text with a right-click.

Jailbreaking: Turning My Kindle to A Juggernaut E-Reader

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Jailbreaking my Kindle to run Python, draw, and block lockscreen ads.

Talk to Harshvardhan

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I created my digital avatar chatbot that you can talk to for free at https://harsh17.in/chat

New Blogging Site!

Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

My blogs have moved from www.harsh17.in/blog to blog.harsh17.in

Spotify Randomizer

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A new playlist of random songs that I haven’t listened in a while generated automatically every Monday

ML Forecasting at HP Inc.

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Creating ML demand forecast for print products at HP Inc. using LightGBM and pushing it to production for wide adoption.

Predicting Race, Age and Gender from Face: A Small-sample Example with Encoding

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Predicting race, age and gender of faces using Variational Autoencoders and Convolutional Neural Networks.

Crafting Conversations with GPT Personalities in Python

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Building a customizable chatbot that brings unique characters to life

Supply Chain Analytics at HP Inc.

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Forecasting Global Print Demand Using Machine Learning

Street Maps (of Some Cities)

Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Over the last few days, I dabbled with maps in R. Two days ago, I made a map of all the cities I’ve visited. Today, I thought to make street maps of some of them (and other cool cities).

Joint Probability-based Dissimilarity Measure for Discrete Variables

Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A Simple Method to Calculate Distance between Discrete Variable

Billionaires and Taxes

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

How much do the super rich really pay? Until now, the answer was unknown — thanks to privacy laws. Recently, tax returns of the super rich was leaked to ProPublica. I thought of exploring the billionaires and their tax rates.

Creating your own short URLs with blogdown

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s how to make your short URLs using Hugo + Blogdown

garlic: Some R Functions I Use Rather Frequently

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

My personal R package for custom functions

Number of PhDs by Field

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

An Incomplete Data Exploration

Notes on STATA

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Some nitty-gritties that economists remember but I don’t

Score and Fisher's Information

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Intuitive Understanding and Mathematical Notions

Cheatsheet on Python

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Some things that I’ll likely forget

Notes on R

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Functions et al

Basics of Text Mining in R

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Thinking of Text as List of Words

Notes on Github

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Tricks of trade I learnt along the way

IndiaPIN: R Data Package

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

R Package for All India PIN Codes Directory with Latitude and Longitude Details (Updated: December 2021)

Urban-Rural Population in 200+ Countries

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

R Shiny app that creates spreadsheet of population levels segregated at district, state, or any other level

Optimizing Order Frequency to Minimize Partial Pallet Orders

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

How can a CPG company improve customers’ ordering behaviour?

Replicating Tennessee STAR Project

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Econometrics Course Project

How fast is M1?

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Comparing Apple M1 processor with Other Systems in R

Next — Today I Learnt About R

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

My Newsletter on R and Data Science

Supervised Learning Using Baysian Decision Rule

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Python Functions for Bayesian Learning (COSC 522 Project)

Aspect Ratio (Merck Inc.)

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

My experience of working as an analyst for Merck Inc. at Aspect Ratio, Pune

Weird error in Blogdown/Hugo

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Eerie behaviour by Hugo

Invento Robotics

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Marketing case study on launch of Mitra — a humanoid robot

Notes on LaTeX

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Typesetting isn’t that easy

Bliss Lifesciences

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Marketing research live project

Is COVID-19 Data tampered?

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Is there any evidence of tampering or manipulation in COVID-19 daily cases reported by countries? Using Benford analysis in R, I try to reach at some conclusion.

Forecasting Malaria Vaccine Demand

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Summary of my research work on forecasting coverage for Malaria vaccines

Sentiment Analysis of Tweets

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Using rTweet package in R to analyse live tweets from Twitter

Exploring My Spotify Listening

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I analyse my listening stats and patterns using R.

Gartner Hype Cycle

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Technologies come and go. The real question is can you predict its popularity?

Notes on Linux

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

sudo do not forget