@DataRecon
Bits and Bytes to Insights
Hey there, my name is Blake Downward from Australia. Background in e-commerce, finance and economics - now making the move to Data Science and applied Machine Learning.
Freelance, contract, full-time ML engineering and data science roles.
Oct 18, 2025 · 8 min read · Every founder has a story... but few know how to tell it. The best founder stories aren't "pitches", they're reflections of the journey: the problem that sparked the idea, the moments of doubt, and the breakthrough that turned it into something real....
Join discussionOct 8, 2025 · 5 min read · You’ve rewritten your About page seventeen times. It still reads like a corporate memo mated with a CV. You know your story matters. You’ve read the articles. You’ve seen how the great founders do it - Airbnb’s “we couldn’t afford rent,” Spanx’s “I c...
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Jul 16, 2025 · 4 min read · Ever needed a banner image with text and thought "I'll get an LLM to create that", but then the words come out weird? That's exactly how GitMap was born - a fun little project to level up my frontend chops and generate a decent looking banner image a...
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Apr 23, 2024 · 3 min read · Dictionaries are a fundamental data structure that every Python developer will encounter at some point. They offer an efficient way to store and manipulate data, making them a go-to structure for many programming tasks. In this article, we'll explore...
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Apr 22, 2024 · 7 min read · Welcome to the second post in this series where we are designing and building a web application with Python and Taipy. In the first post we covered Project Conception and Design, where we walked through the steps to take an idea for a project, define...
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