RFon @RFon@vis.social
Computational biology researcher. Apparently this involves a lot of visualization
“Design for an Audience”
http://style.org/ku/
A+ talk, featuring years of superlative work, by @13pt. Thanks, Jonathan, for so often documenting your presentations online.
A couple of days ago I did a twitter experiment of trying to even the gender-distribution of people I follow. Since then, very scantily clad women with names that differ from their twitter handle have started following me. I'm reporting them as hacked accounts. Anyone else have a similar experience?
Amy Cesal's personal website makes me want to plagiarize http://www.amycesal.com/
She's also doing a really amazing project making charts with Play-Doh (https://twitter.com/hashtag/daydohviz?src=hash)
“Stack Overflow isn’t very welcoming. It’s time for that to change.” https://medium.com/@jayhanlon/welcome-wagon-dd57cbdd54d9
Good to see a new emphasis on being *welcoming*.
Ok, after improving my male/female "following ratio" from 72/28 to 59/38 according to https://www.proporti.onl/ (no, I didn't just add random women) twitters "Who to follow" suggestions became slightly more balanced .. 4 of the top 12 suggestions are now women (where it was 0/12 before). I guess that explains twitters suggestion algorithm: "Look, here's someone that is exactly like everyone you already know"
... seriously .. I had to go to the 28th suggestion before I found a woman.
I'm not sure I understand whats going on. Woman and men are equally active and represented on twitter [https://hbr.org/2009/06/new-twitter-research-men-follo]. It must be either bias in the suggestion algorithm, the fact that I'm a man and it lumps me in with other men, or that my field (Computational biology) has more men. Either way this is reinforcing the problem
Went to https://twitter.com/who_to_follow/suggestions and I guess that is part of the #diversity problem .. top 12 suggestions are 8 men and 4 anonymous (who after a bit of digging I'm 90% sure are also men).
Hey if you heard the podcast discussion with @jschwabish, you heard me speculate that “maybe” early vis.social members skewed male because “maybe” mostly men followed me on Twitter, and Twitter is the only place where I promoted vis.social, initially.
Um, well, I just learned that Twitter’s analytics estimates your follower gender balance for you, and, er…
@RFon this may be useful, too: https://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/
@RFon for PNG I have a WIP version of this leveraging HTML2Canvas and some copypaste from stackoverflow. Been meaning to make an Observable of this...
Best / recommended way to add a "Download SVG / PDF / PNG" feature to your #D3 visualization?
Upgraded vis.social to the next tier hosting plan, as we’ve now got almost 1,000 members! 😮
To help this experiment succeed, please contribute!
1. Share your questions, feedback, critiques, and works-in-progress. 🎨
2. Help invite & welcome others. Be as inclusive as possible. 🤝
3. Donate a little 💰, if you are in a comfortable position to do so (but 1 & 2 are more important).
TIL there's a fine line between " catacomb" and "macaron" 😬
https://beta.observablehq.com/@rasmusfonseca/old-school-bezier-screensaver
I did a thing with the thing that everyone thinks is a thing #observablehq #sureitsart #ohgodhelpmestopprocrastinating
I’m formulating a plan for inclusion efforts on vis.social, with the goal of making this a more diverse (and therefore more valuable and sustainable) social space.
But… I don't know what I'm doing! Please review and comment to me here, or in the doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRyzZBccr1vxx684YjcN5cSWq0W8DA4a9v-cXC5vyPw/edit?usp=sharing
❤️🙂
Thanks to @kristinHenry’s great question, I’ve asked on the forums “how to foster inclusivity and welcome new members to Mastodon”.
RT @simongerman600
I loved @DisneyPixar's "Inside Out". Really enjoy this matrix combining the five base emotions with each other. I honestly think kids benefit from watching this movie as is creates a good starting point to talk about emotions. Source: https://buff.ly/2J4pA2y
https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/979687725275136000
Spent the morning going through my FB data. Found some really cool memories. Found some strange things. Now that I have a copy of the data, I can take the old dog out behind the barn. #deletefacebook
Here's to living more in meatspace.
