https://mcgowenlab.com/ Notes and essays on data, technology, language, systems, and the occasional thing that broke while I was trying to build something. en-us https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/i-just-wanted-a-better-funnel-report/ https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/i-just-wanted-a-better-funnel-report/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT How a simple admissions reporting project became a lesson in definitions, dates, and data modeling https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/data-work-is-translation-work/ https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/data-work-is-translation-work/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT An essay on why data work is often less about numbers and more about translating between human questions, database structures, definitions, and decisions. https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/building-this-site-eleventy/ https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/building-this-site-eleventy/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short write-up on turning a static Bootstrap portfolio into a Markdown-powered Eleventy site with articles, series, images, and a proper writing archive. https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/building-this-site-part-2/ https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/building-this-site-part-2/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A follow-up on the less glamorous parts of getting this site working: subfolder hosting, broken links, browser cache lies, article lists, and Eleventy permalinks. https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/gods-and-snakes-part-4/ https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/gods-and-snakes-part-4/ Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT The series turns from abandoned ideas to the final project: using a neural network to attempt ancient Greek part-of-speech tagging. https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/gods-and-snakes-part-3/ https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/gods-and-snakes-part-3/ Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT A look at ancient Greek prosody, poetic meter, and why automatic scansion was not the final capstone direction. https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/gods-and-snakes-part-2/ https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/gods-and-snakes-part-2/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT A look at why authorship prediction was too large in scope for the capstone project. https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/gods-and-snakes-part-1/ https://mcgowenlab.com/articles/gods-and-snakes-part-1/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT The first post in a capstone series about bringing NLP and data science to ancient Greek.