Why I made this

I'm Aalay, a high school student from Sammamish, Washington. I like math, finance, basketball, and piano, and at some point I realized that the same kinds of models show up in all of those things. Growth curves describe tumors and product adoption. Spectral decomposition describes ragas and overtones. Expected value describes shot selection and portfolio allocation.

Pattern is my attempt to take that idea seriously. Each investigation starts with a question I couldn't answer by Googling, pulls a public dataset, applies a model, and shows the work. Some of the models hold up better than others, and I try to be upfront about that in the limitations sections.