Colin Sherrill
I’m a senior research data scientist at Google.
Off the clock I make small, self-contained things for the web. This site collects them, along with occasional notes.
Data science
Public write-ups and side analyses will land here. For now, most of my after-hours energy goes to the projects below.
Fun projects
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FOSAIC
Set any picture in stone. Drop in a photo and it comes back a Roman mosaic: irregular tesserae, grout and all, computed entirely in your browser.
fosaic.com -
Pindifferent
Like Pinterest, but at peace with it. A pixel-faithful parody whose guided tour slowly, gently talks you out of the entire concept.
pindifferent.com -
Just Press Right
An award-winning game. Press right, and a man walks right. You will be interrupted. You will be celebrated. Mostly interrupted.
justpressright.com -
What’s the Price of a Stamp?
A different famous website every time you load it, with the current price of a US postage stamp hidden somewhere inside.
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Alder Box
A quiet interactive story: someone else’s keepsake box, opened one object at a time while an old friend tells you what each one meant.
alderbox.com
Featured project
Crowable
Share music with friends across streaming platforms.
Music sharing breaks the moment your friends use a different app. Crowable fixes that: post a song from Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube, and everyone opens it in the service they actually use. Behind it is a cross-platform matching engine that resolves each track across catalogs; in front is a small, friendly social network (posts, comments, reactions, playlists) that installs straight to your phone.
Visit crowable.com Currently in private beta
Writing
Creative writing will live here. Nothing posted yet. In the meantime, the notes below are where the small stuff lands.
Notes
A microblog: short posts on what I’m working on, links worth keeping, and the occasional aside. Click a title to expand it.
Elsewhere
I’m @cpsherrill on GitHub. Most of my repositories are private, so the contribution graph below undercounts considerably.