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

Chloe Condon 🎀 on July 23, 2020

Chloe Condon is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. Before attending Hackbright Academy and making the career switch into tech, she spent her nights and...
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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 ðŸĪŠ

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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 ðŸŒą 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! ðŸĪĐ 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! ðŸ”Ū

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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" ðŸ”Ū

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Terence

Wario all day

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Ah- I see you are evil, like my boyfriend ðŸ˜ģ😂😜

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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 ðŸĪĐ

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Linda Thompson

Fun talk, Chloe! Love that this fun tweet turned into it's own site! Had no idea there was a NES.css....need to find some way to play with that sometime!

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Chloe Condon 🎀

SAME! Now I wanna add NES.css to all the things ðŸŽŪ

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Joseph Dubon

This is why I am here! So excited for this.

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Oh yay!! I'm so glad- thanks for coming!! 💕

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Adriana Chavez

my favorites were toad and yoshi

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Chloe Condon 🎀

oooh yes! I'm a Toadette gal myself 💕

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Brian Bethencourt

shoutout for all my fellow waluigi mains

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Chloe Condon 🎀

lol yaaaaas!!

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Terri Fricker

I like that this ties into your acting. I love actors who are able to just use their face to show a series of emotions that shows what they are thinking without words.

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Absolutely! And there are so many fun ways that facial recognition could be applied to the arts. I hope we get some artistic code newbies watching out there who make more fun/creative projects using cognitive services! Hamilton face app, anyone? 😉

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Emmy | Pixi

Loved your talk, Chloe! I've been meaning to play with the Face API for a long time, and the horoscopes idea is such a fun one

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Oh yay! Excited to see all the cool face-y face projects y'all make (that's an official technical term, right? "face-y face"? 😜)

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Adriana Chavez

giving me some good ideas for my next chatbot!

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Oooh yay! Please share when you're done! ðŸĪĐ

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Bill Kearney

Looks like fun with a nice integration. Will have to check it out!

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Casey Lynette

How confidently can the API detect the features in a photo of darker skinned POC?

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Chloe Condon 🎀

In my experience, the Face API has been incredibly accurate and has been trained on a diverse set of faces/images! Many of the cosplay images I used for this particular project were images of POC, and I had no trouble. If you try it yourself and run into any issues, please let me know and I'll provide that feedback directly to the eng team! 🌈

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jpfraneto

Hi Chloe, I'm new to web development but really motivated because of what I've heard today. Thank you for the inspiration.

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Chloe Condon 🎀

Oh, I'm so glad!! Anyone can learn to code- truly! I hope that some folks take inspiration and find that coding can be fun/silly/creative, too! We can solve problems with tech AND have fun while we learn 💕