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

Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ 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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Kelsey Huse โ€ข

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

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

Yaaas Toad & Yoshi ftw! They make some of the best sounds ๐Ÿคช

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Brian Bethencourt โ€ข

don't dare me to cosplay as ludwig because i totally will ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

WE NEED THE DATA, BRIAN!! ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Terri Fricker โ€ข

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 ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

hahaha- the sacrifices we make for children. ๐Ÿ˜œ

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shazena โ€ข

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 ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

Yes yes- absolutely!! Check out Jen Looper's DIY Terrarium with CSS project if you like those types of projects ๐ŸŒฑ github.com/jlooper/my-terrarium

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shazena โ€ข

This is amazing! Thank you so much!

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Shannon Crabill โ€ข

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 ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

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! ๐Ÿคฉ twitter.com/djbaskin

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Joseph Dubon โ€ข

This is AWESOME!!!

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

Thanks!! I hope it inspires lotsa fun new playful versions of "astrology" ๐Ÿ”ฎ

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Bryant Richards โ€ข

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 ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

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 ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

The video will be posted here soon, so you can check out what ya missed ๐Ÿคฉ

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Terri Fricker โ€ข

So much fun!

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

Yay!! Thanks for watching! ๐Ÿ”ฎ

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Terence โ€ข

Wario all day

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

Ah- I see you are evil, like my boyfriend ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜œ

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Terence โ€ข

Haha, Wario is just a fun, happy-go-lucky guy. Itโ€™s Waluigi that you have to worry about ๐Ÿ‘€

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Chris Jarvis โ€ข

I remember that tweet.

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

Full circle! haha

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Joseph Dubon โ€ข

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

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

Oh yay!! I'm so glad- thanks for coming!! ๐Ÿ’•

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Brian Bethencourt โ€ข

shoutout for all my fellow waluigi mains

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

lol yaaaaas!!

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Adriana Chavez โ€ข

giving me some good ideas for my next chatbot!

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

Oooh yay! Please share when you're done! ๐Ÿคฉ

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Adriana Chavez โ€ข

my favorites were toad and yoshi

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

oooh yes! I'm a Toadette gal myself ๐Ÿ’•

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Casey Lynette โ€ข

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

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Chloe Condon ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

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! ๐ŸŒˆ

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Terri Fricker โ€ข

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 ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

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? ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Emmy | Pixi โ€ข

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 ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

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"? ๐Ÿ˜œ)

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Linda Thompson โ€ข

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 ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

SAME! Now I wanna add NES.css to all the things ๐ŸŽฎ

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Bill Kearney โ€ข

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

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jpfraneto โ€ข

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 ๐ŸŽ€ โ€ข

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 ๐Ÿ’•