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Sassy_AI, the sarcastic assistant that doesn't really like humans

A web chatbot that gives useful answers—with irony, a little drama, and zero patience for banality.

By Héric Libong
Posted on March 12, 2026 • Project

Description Sassy_AI V2 is a portfolio-ready rewrite of a sarcastic assistant: from CLI project to a web chatbot with static frontend + FastAPI backend. [Read More]
Tags:
- chatbot
- openai
- fastapi
- python
- javascript
- spec-kit
- github-copilot
- gpt-codex
- hugging-face
- docker
Infograph2Data: turning infographics into reusable datasets with AI

Visuals often contain valuable data, but numbers are rarely available in structured form.

By Héric Libong
Posted on March 11, 2026 • Project

Challenge During an AI-focused hackathon, we explored a recurring issue in data work and journalism: [Read More]
Tags:
- hackathon
- innovation
- data
- ai
History of the Australian Grand Prix

40 years of Australian GP history, from Adelaide's heat to Melbourne's street circuit

By Héric Libong
Posted on January 14, 2026 • Post

40 years of Australian Grand Prix history, from Adelaide’s furnace to Melbourne’s street layout. This interactive timeline highlights the sport’s cycles: the pioneer era first, then Michael Schumacher’s dominant run in the early 2000s as a turning point marked by Ferrari’s hegemony. [Read More]
Tags:
- F1
- History
- Australian GP
- Flourish
- Python
When oral culture meets AI: Living Archive

A hackathon-born project to rebuild an African pantheon as an explorable living archive (in progress).

By Héric Libong
Posted on January 13, 2026 • Project

Description Living Archive was born during a hackathon: using AI to make possible what used to be difficult—rebuilding an African pantheon and making it explorable as a living archive. [Read More]
Tags:
- Mythology
- Africa
- GenAI
- Python
- FastAPI
- Culture
- Google Cloud
- Anntigravity
- Vibe coding
The 2025 Formula 1 season in a heatmap

A race-by-race visual recap of the 2025 F1 season

By Héric Libong
Posted on January 3, 2026 • Post

This visualization offers a compact reading of the 2025 Formula 1 season through points scored race after race. [Read More]
Tags:
- dataviz
- F1
- D3.js
- python
- heatmap
2025: Lewis Hamilton's worst season in data

A data-driven review of Lewis Hamilton's first Ferrari season

By Héric Libong
Posted on December 29, 2025 • Post

At the end of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was blunt: “It’s the worst season ever. No matter how hard I try, it keeps getting worse.” [Read More]
Tags:
- Hamilton
- F1
- Dataviz
- Flourish

Sassy_AI, the sarcastic assistant that doesn't really like humans

A web chatbot that gives useful answers—with irony, a little drama, and zero patience for banality.

Infograph2Data: turning infographics into reusable datasets with AI

Visuals often contain valuable data, but numbers are rarely available in structured form.

History of the Australian Grand Prix

40 years of Australian GP history, from Adelaide's heat to Melbourne's street circuit

When oral culture meets AI: Living Archive

A hackathon-born project to rebuild an African pantheon as an explorable living archive (in progress).

The 2025 Formula 1 season in a heatmap

A race-by-race visual recap of the 2025 F1 season

2025: Lewis Hamilton's worst season in data

A data-driven review of Lewis Hamilton's first Ferrari season