I built a little tool to help my parents think through when to claim Social Security — and learned the "right" age is mostly a guess about how long you'll live.

What to Do When Your Parents Ask 'When Should We Start Taking Social Security?'

How a five-hour Monterey Park city council meeting turned into a project to transcribe and make local government more accessible.

Why I Started Transcribing Monterey Park City Council Meetings

Reflections on a year of deliberate slowdown, monthly experiments, and building things with friends and family.

A Year in Mini Retirement

Exploring the next phase of Crunchy Garden's experimental journey, highlighting the differences between the original digital garden community at crunchy.garden and the comprehensive platform at crunchygarden.com.

Crunchy Garden: What's Growing

A personal look at Crunchy Garden, our experimental project aimed at building a digital community for gardening enthusiasts to share knowledge, explore sustainable practices, and connect with others interested in growing their own food.

Crunchy Garden: Our Journey Building a Digital Community for Gardeners

An experiment in civic tech — a personal voter guide tool that lets you track your choices, add notes, and share with friends and family. Looking for feedback.

The Voter Guider: A Tool for Making Up Your Mind

Visualization and Analysis for Meal Kit Nutrition Information

Using meals data from various meal kit services this project classifies based on major protein types.

Pick a Kit Protein Classifier

Using Pandas Profiling for Meal Kit Data Validation

Hello Everyone. This website is created as a showcase for my data science and web development projects. I plan to update this page to showcase my new work. Thank you for reading and stay tuned!

Robert Nakano

Writing