Alex Wein @alexwein@vis.social

This post by Jiaying Zhao -- from the always fantastic Multiple Views blog -- covers some interesting experiments on how liberals and conservatives read charts on climate change. https://medium.com/multiple-views-visualization-research-explained/how-to-engage-different-audiences-with-the-same-graph-b904eb25e1c9

Really tempted, as always, to try and define "sandwich" in this presentation I'm working on.

One conclusion I've drawn from some quick exploratory analysis of this Data Visualization Survey data: I still hate working with survey data!

https://medium.com/nightingale/2019-annual-data-visualization-survey-results-334d3523073f

writing a little LaTeX for the first time since I quit grad school in 2012. It's fun... $\forall a \in A \exists b (<a,b> \in R)$

tired: "should have been a bar chart"

wired: "should have been a spreadsheet"

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/08/sheets-slicers-scorecards-themes.html

square root calculation on a ~1700 bc babylonian tablet http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/ybc/analysis.html

Whenever I find myself thinking too hard about what's gonna happen in the marvel universe, I just tell myself it's a very serious intellectual interest in the metaphysics of fictional worlds https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8a0a/bb1d0e73c11017ae923a844aa0a43c67ac62.pdf

I'm also really pumped just to go to the conference. It seems like a great mix of speakers and organizers, and I'm eager to up my d3 game. Come to visfest, too! http://visfest.com/unconf2019/

So, I'm giving a workshop at visfest next month in Chicago! It's mostly an introduction to set theory...but with charts and stuff. Totally terrified, but really excited to share some of my favorite ideas from math. http://visfest.com/unconf2019/

Amazing post on tokenism in data viz by Stephanie Evergreen. It takes courage to call out men's behavior so directly. https://medium.com/nightingale/beyond-nightingale-being-a-woman-in-data-visualization-d7968d171ccf

rayshader::plot_gg(candyland)

started playing with the marvel api but got distracted by playing with imagemagick

It took 5k members and 85k messages in the Data Viz Society Slack before one really made me go: "Who the hell is this bozo?"

Here's where I've lived

I've been playing around with board-gamey curves since reading this great post on the design space for timelines http://10qviz.org/timelines-revisited/