Alex Wein @alexwein@vis.social

I think the talk from TapestryConf that has stayed with me the most is Carni Klirs's project on the DC punk band Fugazi. If I end up quitting my job, it'll be Carni's fault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYxIrhA7XCk

I had such a wonderful time at Tapestry. Really appreciate all the work that everyone at Tableau and the University of Miami did to make the conference. A link to the slides for my talk and most of the code for the fake charts is available on my github https://github.com/a-lexwein/tapestry-utterances

Dealing with impostor syndrome by just making my slides intentionally hideous.

Working earnestly in Tableau for the first time in my life. Everything has a learning curve, but I'm slowly starting to "get it". One thing I like a lot: many happy accidents that make me want to just tinker and tinker.

Ooh just registered for Tapestry Conference. Anyone else going?

A small highlight of my day: a refactoring of our app's user model broke some downstream dashboards, leading to me telling everyone: "Do not use do_not_use!"

related to the last toot, Ira Glass's quote about the gap between one's taste and one's ability has been on my mind a lot over the last year, and it's been awesome to see it's resonated with other data folks:

Jenny Bryan had a great talk on code smells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQKciKfHI

@Allitorban introduces the IRA method: https://dataviztoday.com/shownotes/26

I'm in search of a good term to encompass relational data, regardless of technical implementation: rows of observations and columns of variables. The stuff in SQL databases and queries, data frames, sane excel worksheets and text files of all delimiters. I want something more technical than "rectangles" (I term I use a lot).

Grateful today and every day for ISO 8601

Clever and maybe useful barchart text function: https://gist.github.com/ltrgoddard/0f8d01bfc937fbcddef7204674b7f23d

sparkbar(c(1:5, 1:5, 6:10, 9:1))
[1] "▁▂▂▃▄▁▂▂▃▄▅▅▆▇█▇▆▅▅▄▃▂▂▁"

This article is pretty consistent with my experience as a Google TVC: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/inside-google-s-shadow-workforce

I've been listening *Make My Bed* by King Princess a ton over the last two weeks.

I'm still really new in my job, and gave a big presentation today on my vision for what I'm doing. I feel *very* clever for coming up with this kale analogy:

I admit a bit of aversion to non-interactive animation as a dataviz solution, but when the tools are as easy to use at gganimate, I'm sure I'll figure out some good uses.