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Using Cognitive Services and Mario Kart to Create "Astrology" with Chloe Condon

Chloe Condon is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. Before attending Hackbright Academy and making the career switch into tech, she spent her nights and weekends on-stage as a musical theatre actress. She is passionate about bringing folks with non-traditional and creative backgrounds into technical spaces, and loves to find ways to teach and demo technical examples in quirky and humorous ways.

Have you ever wanted to learn more about cognitive services, but don’t know where to start? Then this is the talk for you! I’ll walk you through how to make your own “astrology” using images of cosplay characters, and share my story of how I created my own horoscopes with Mario Kart players- watch out for any stray banana peels! 🏁🍄⭐️🐢🍌

Here is a download link to the talk slides (PDF)


This talk will be presented as part of CodeLand:Distributed on July 23. After the talk is streamed as part of the conference, it will be added to this post as a recorded video.

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Brian Bethencourt

don't dare me to cosplay as ludwig because i totally will 😂😂

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Chloe Condon 🎀

WE NEED THE DATA, BRIAN!! 😂

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Kelsey Huse

I choose Toad or Yoshi! Excited to see what this says about me...

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Yaaas Toad & Yoshi ftw! They make some of the best sounds 🤪

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Terri Fricker

I never get to pick first, so I never get to be Princess Peach or Yoshi because my kids choose them, so I end up being Luigi. I'm not important enough in the family to choose Mario. Besides, I usually lose.

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Chloe Condon 🎀

hahaha- the sacrifices we make for children. 😜

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shazena

I really love that you showed that there is a link between loving crafts and coding. As someone who loved crafting as a kid, I've found that I kind of see coding as a way to create things in a way more accessible way!

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Yes yes- absolutely!! Check out Jen Looper's DIY Terrarium with CSS project if you like those types of projects 🌱 github.com/jlooper/my-terrarium

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shazena

This is amazing! Thank you so much!

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Shannon Crabill

The concept behind this project is ridiculous but I am 100% here for it! You've inspired me to run with whatever crazy, tweet joke ideas I come up with.

❤️

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Chloe Condon 🎀

omg yas!! If that's the main takeaway: mission accomplished! Fun/silly/ridiculous demos ftw! Highly recommend following Danielle Baskin for more content like this! 🤩 twitter.com/djbaskin

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Chris Jarvis

I remember that tweet.

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Full circle! haha

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Terri Fricker

So much fun!

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Yay!! Thanks for watching! 🔮

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Joseph Dubon

This is AWESOME!!!

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Thanks!! I hope it inspires lotsa fun new playful versions of "astrology" 🔮

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Terence

Wario all day

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Ah- I see you are evil, like my boyfriend 😳😂😜

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Terence

Haha, Wario is just a fun, happy-go-lucky guy. It’s Waluigi that you have to worry about 👀

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Bryant Richards

I stepped away to get a drink, how did we get on cosplay? I'm so here for this. As a staff photographer for several anime conventions I have literally thousands upon thousands of cosplayer photos sitting on a HD I can try this on.

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Chloe Condon 🎀

hahaha- once I discovered that the Microsoft Face API needed human images (vs cartoon) I decided to use cosplay images for my data!

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Chloe Condon 🎀

The video will be posted here soon, so you can check out what ya missed 🤩

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