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OneStar report on Firefox reviews: a headline naming the top praise and the top complaint, with how reviewers feel beside it

OneStar

AI, SaaS, 2026

Audience sentiment for apps and games, compared across the App Store, Google Play, and Steam and tracked as new reviews arrive. Jev, a small model that returns typed answers instead of text, reads every review and code does all the counting.

Pyx chart workspace comparing semiconductor stocks against the market

Pyx

Desktop App, Fintech, 2026

A local-first portfolio tracker and research terminal. Every account lands in one encrypted file on your machine, with charts, research, notes, and an MCP server for the AI of your choice.

Cure AI answering a research question with cited sources

AI, Research, 2024

A scientific research platform with access to 26 million pieces of peer-reviewed literature. Researchers ask questions in plain language and every answer links to its sources. Founded during my junior year at Emory. The retrieval method was granted a patent, and the product was named Product of the Day on Product Hunt.

Map of the largest U.S. wildfires from 1992 to 2015

U.S. Wildfire Analysis

Data Science, 2024

An analysis of 1.88 million U.S. wildfire records from 1992 to 2015, examining where large fires cluster, when they occur, and how long they take to contain. Gradient-boosted trees produced the most accurate containment-time predictions.

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Loan Default Prediction

Machine Learning, 2024

A study of fairness in automated loan approval, training three models on 890,000 Lending Club applications. Removing bias-related features had minimal effect on accuracy, suggesting fairer lending decisions are achievable without a meaningful tradeoff in performance.

DooleyAFavor task board

DooleyAFavor

Full Stack, 2023

A task marketplace for Emory University students to post jobs and hire peers. Developed with a small team using sprint planning, with a Flask REST API, a PostgreSQL database, and deployment on Heroku.

Dodge

Game Dev, 2022

A 2D game in which enemies calculate intercept trajectories rather than following the player directly, so difficulty scales with skill. Built independently in Python with Pygame, including custom collision detection and a particle system.

<!-- /projects.md: the projects page, as plain markdown --> # Projects Seven things I’ve built, newest first. ## OneStar 2026. Audience research. Audience sentiment for apps and games, compared across the App Store, Google Play, and Steam and tracked as new reviews arrive. Jev, a small model that returns typed answers instead of text, reads every review and code does all the counting. Stack: Python, FastAPI, Jev, Server-sent events, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Fly.io Areas: AI routing systems, API design, Backend systems, Full stack development - [Website](https://onestar.sh) ## Pyx 2026. Desktop app. A local-first portfolio tracker and research terminal. Every account lands in one encrypted file on your machine, with charts, research, notes, and an MCP server for the AI of your choice. Stack: Rust, Floem, wgpu, tokio, SQLite, SnapTrade, Tantivy, React, Tailwind CSS Areas: AI retrieval systems, API design, Backend systems - [Website](https://pyx.finance) ## Cure AI 2024. Research platform. A scientific research platform with access to 26 million pieces of peer-reviewed literature. Researchers ask questions in plain language and every answer links to its sources. Founded during my junior year at Emory. The retrieval method was granted a patent, and the product was named Product of the Day on Product Hunt. Stack: Python, FastAPI, React, Tailwind CSS, Pinecone, OpenAI, Stripe, Neon, Vercel Areas: AI retrieval systems, API design, Backend systems, Full stack development - [Website](https://www.askcureai.com) ## U.S. Wildfire Analysis 2024. Data science. An analysis of 1.88 million U.S. wildfire records from 1992 to 2015, examining where large fires cluster, when they occur, and how long they take to contain. Gradient-boosted trees produced the most accurate containment-time predictions. Stack: Python, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib Areas: Data science and ML - [GitHub](https://github.com/Jared-Watson1/CS470) ## Loan Default Prediction 2024. Machine learning. A study of fairness in automated loan approval, training three models on 890,000 Lending Club applications. Removing bias-related features had minimal effect on accuracy, suggesting fairer lending decisions are achievable without a meaningful tradeoff in performance. Stack: Python, scikit-learn, pandas Areas: Data science and ML - [GitHub](https://github.com/Jared-Watson1/loan-default-prediction) ## DooleyAFavor 2023. Full stack. A task marketplace for Emory University students to post jobs and hire peers. Developed with a small team using sprint planning, with a Flask REST API, a PostgreSQL database, and deployment on Heroku. Stack: Node.js, Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, Heroku Areas: API design, Backend systems, Full stack development - [GitHub](https://github.com/Jared-Watson1/DooleyAFavor) ## Dodge 2022. Game. A 2D game in which enemies calculate intercept trajectories rather than following the player directly, so difficulty scales with skill. Built independently in Python with Pygame, including custom collision detection and a particle system. Stack: Python, Pygame - [GitHub](https://github.com/Jared-Watson1/Dodge) --- More: [Home](/index.md) · [Projects](/projects.md) · [Blog](/blog.md) · [GitHub](https://github.com/Jared-Watson1) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-watson-b7b5b6220/)