Jason Ballantyne's Portfolio

Implementation of a social media system containing client-server architecture that allows users (clients) to exchange public messages on their “wall” with friends. [Read More]

This project implements three simple games: a lottery game, a coin flip game and a game of rock-paper-scissors. The program allocates points to a victorious player and stores these points on a leaderboard. [Read More]

Programs to implement basic versions of some of the objects in Pandas. Contains two classes: MySeries & MyDataFrame. MySeries contains a constructor and the following 5 methods: [Read More]

A technical report based on the the following: Comparison between relational and NoSQL database management models. Advantages and drawbacks of Spark and Hadoop. A review of “Yesquel: scalable SQL storage for Web applications” [Read More]

Analysis of student’s substance use and sporting behaviour for a cohort of 50 pupils aged 13 in 1995 in a school in the West of Scotland using R. We then follow up with further analysis on the same students with a dataset collected in 1997. [Read More]