Michael Pantoja
NFL Subreddit Sentiment Analysis
If you've ever watched a live game thread while your favorite team is playing, you know the discussions can get very… dramatic. In this analysis, I looked at sentiment across NFL team subreddits to see which fanbases trend the most positive or negative during games.
Bouldering Pose Estimation
I love to boulder, but sometimes it’s hard to figure out the proper body positioning for a move. In this project, I built a model to analyze climbing footage and identify common body-positioning issues.
Six Degrees of NBA Players
Inspired by Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, this interactive project lets users select any two players in NBA history and see how they’re connected through shared teammates.
Generative Modeling of Super Mario Maker Levels
With over 8M+ user-created levels in Super Mario Maker 2, the design space for level creation is effectively limitless. In this project, I trained a procedural content generation model on real player-created level data to learn common structural patterns and generate new, original levels that resemble authentic player designs.