Category: Ideas
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Shasta vs. Descript
It's a premature title, as I don't actually have access to Project Shasta yet, but this announcement makes it sound very similar to Descript: Adobe’s Project Shasta is an AI-powered, web-based audio editor. I have requested access, though, and will report back when I know more! 🙂
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Visualizing Qualitative Data
A big part of my job these days is supporting campus researchers in their use of NVivo, a tool for analyzing qualitative data. While NVivo does offer some data visualization options, in my workshops I describe it as, "Microsoft Office-level". In other words, not terribly sophisticated, and that's fine. But I'm always keen to see…
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Google Earth timelapse of Fort McMurray
Google just announced what they're calling Google Earth’s biggest update in years. With Timelapse in Google Earth, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been compiled into an interactive 4D experience. Now anyone can watch time unfold and witness nearly four decades of planetary change. It's pretty neat! A number of years…
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Initial Thoughts on Alberta’s FOIP Process
On December 8, I noticed the Govt. of Alberta had posted a new video to YouTube titled, FOIP Request Service Guided Tour. You know what? I've honestly always wanted to submit a FOIP request! Here are some initial thoughts on how it went, and I'll report back if/when I hear something. So we start at…
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A map of the most spoken languages in every Canadian Province or Territory besides English and/or French
I saw this post on BoingBoing earlier today: A fascinating map of the most spoken languages in every US state besides English and Spanish and wondered what an equivalent map for Canada might look like. So I made one. Data was pulled from the 2016 Canadian Census, looking at the variable "Language spoken most often…
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How to Find the RSS Feed URL by Guessing
The Zapier newsletter I just got had a link to this article from last year: How to Find the RSS Feed URL for Almost Any Site. It's got some good tips for sussing out RSS feeds, but I have a couple more. I ran across two sites recently that should've had RSS feeds, but apparently…
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Quick and Dirty Data Viz of Canadian Federal Candidates
A couple of months ago I posted about using Flourish to build a bar chart race data visualization. Shortly after that Flourish had another blog post highlighting all the different ways their site could be used to visualize election data, and I've had it bookmarked waiting for another opportunity to experiment with the service. Earlier…
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Thoughts on building my first bar chart race with Flourish
If you're on social media you've probably seen a bunch of bar chart races pop up in the past couple of weeks. The folks at Flourish have a good post chronicling the "new" phenomenon. Even better, Flourish created a template which makes it pretty easy to build your own, so that's what I did. Here…