Hi, I'm Samuel Hinton

I'm an author, data scientist, astrophysicist, software engineer, educator, and pizza lover.

Status Update

Moving continents and editing!

Relocated back to Australia at the start of 2022, and book one is in final editing stage. Exciting!

Books

I'm a various reader of fantasy novels, especially progression based fantasy. So much so that I decided to contribute to the literature.

Latest Blogs

Writing, life, outreach and random things. Many more are available here!

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Soul Relic Prologue

A brief snippet teasing much more to come!

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The Continent of Rhodus

Detailing the world for my upcoming fantasy novel.

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A weekend in Scotland

Visiting the Isle of Skye for some amazing views.

Book Reviews

For those loving progression fantasy and LitRPG, here are my latest reviews. More available here, of course!

The Scholomance Series

The Perfect Run

Beware of Chicken

The Primal Hunter

The Enchanter

Latest Tutorials

Visualisation, machine learning, modelling, statistics and other code tutorial and math tutorials from over the years. Many more are available here!

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Finding the best Wordle opening

Applying Python data analysis to determine the optimial wordle opening word and follow ups.

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Merging dicts with the union operator

Python 3.9 introduced a new operator to streamline unions.

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Simple Multiprocessing in Python

Comparing inbuilt solutions to a range of external libraries.

Courses

I've partnered with SuperDataScience to produce several high quality Python courses in the area of statistics and data manipulation.

Python for Statistical Analysis

Statistics and hypothesis testing using modern tools and workflows all in Python. For those that want to brush up on their statistics and analytics using modern tools and practical problems.

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Data Manipulation in Python

Data wranging with Pandas made fast, efficient, and easy. Learn how to manipulate, transform, aggregate, visualise, and summarise data using best practices.