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Jordan Meets the Animal Kingdom: How the Knight-Mozilla Hackfest in Berlin changed the way I think about programming
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Jordan Meets the Animal Kingdom. The wilderness starts here. Wednesday, October 05, 2011. How the Knight-Mozilla Hackfest in Berlin changed the way I think about programming. Hacktoberfest left me feeling mushier than this plate of potatoes and mystery green goo. I want to give a group hug to the world! Image credit: Flickr user russeljsmith. Shared with a Creative Commons license. We can’t help it. But why? Why do people write, bake, program or paint? Once we know how to make something, we understand it...
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Jordan Meets the Animal Kingdom: October 2011
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Jordan Meets the Animal Kingdom. The wilderness starts here. Wednesday, October 05, 2011. My favorite beers from the Great American Beer Festival. The Great American Beer Festival. On Saturday was a blur. A delicious, beery, happy, blur. (See photo.) But! I did manage to scribble down my favorite beers in my beer diary (yes, I have one). The notes are probably not that useful ("yum! I want to drink it forever! The buttons read: "I 3 Oregon beers" and "Oregon gives me wood" (from the Laurelwood Brewery.
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August | 2011 | Civil Statistician
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Stats, datavis, edu, brains, etc. Monthly Archives: August 2011. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the cubicle…. August 24, 2011. Yesterday’s earthquake in Virginia was a new experience for me. I am glad that there was no major damage and there seem to have been no serious injuries. After we evacuated the building, and once it was clear that nobody had been hurt, I began to wonder: how do you know when it’s safe to go back inside? Or should you wait several hours? FEMA does not help much in...
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YASIV Blog: December 2011
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011. You Do - I Do: Idea Behind Yasiv. Let's face it: We tend to do or buy what other people are doing or buying. If voice of uniqueness inside your head protests, ask it why did you join Facebook? What about the last movie, book or game that your friends recommended? And that's not a bad thing after all. In a risk of stating obvious, we are overwhelmed with information and having "filters" in form of friends recommendations help us not to sink. Why is it so popular? You ask an exp...
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How to visualize data with cartoonish faces ala Chernoff | FlowingData
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How to visualize data with cartoonish faces ala Chernoff. The goal of Chernoff faces is to show a bunch of variables at once via facial features like lips, eyes, and nose size. Most of the time there are better solutions, but the faces can be interesting to work with. FlowingData reader Chris asks:. I was wondering, have you ever considered doing a Chernoff faces tutorial for R? I think Chernoff faces are pretty interesting and I haven’t seen much about them on the web. Step 1. Install package. Another P...
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Récits tout court [Archives]: novembre 2013
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Récits tout court [Archives]. L'homme ne peut découvrir de nouveaux océans à moins qu'il ait le courage de perdre de vue le rivage" (André Gide). Vendredi 22 novembre 2013. Dernièrement, je dédie pas mal de temps à me documenter sur la visualisation des informations. C’est ainsi que, à la bibliothèque de l’EPFL, je suis tombée sur le bouquin Visualize this de Yau, un livre que je vous conseille de lire ou du moins de feuilleter. Yau, N. (2011). Plusieurs services online sont aussi présentés, aussi bien p...
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Civil Statistician | Stats, datavis, edu, brains, etc. | Page 2
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Stats, datavis, edu, brains, etc. Newer posts →. November 17, 2011. Dan Meyer, a (former? Math teacher with some extraordinary ideas, has a nifty concept for teaching expected values. 8220;So one month before our formal discussion of expected value, I’d print out this image, tack a spinner to it, and ask every student to fix a bet on one region for the entire month. I’d seal my own bet in an envelope. Which one would win! But the lesson just isn’t true with this spinner and time-frame. Here, the highest-...
