Alex Wein @alexwein@vis.social

I've really enjoyed lurking on the Future of Coding slack (ever since discovering the FoC Podcast over the summer). I feel like an interloper on the conversation, but when there was a need/request for better data viz, I spent an evening trying to wrangle data with javascript: https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/what-future-of-coding-topics-interest-you-most

I had a stupid/clever idea about a pie chart that adds up to more than 100%. Still haven't found the right textures (or actual data to plot).

Observable's new dataflow visualizer is so rad!
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/introducing-visual-dataflow

I have followed through on my threat to get better at Boggle.

I made a janky simulation inspired by Harry Stevens's awesome Washington Post piece.

https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/bouncing-balls-not-a-model-for-virus-transmission

I've been playing a lot of online boggle and am considering making "getting better at boggle" a distancing goal.

I did not get the snack-to-meal ratio right when I went grocery shopping last week.

I titled a Spotify playlist "distancing" and was pretty impressed with the algorithmic suggestions.

The Reply All episode that everyone said was good was indeed very good, but it really made me wish Gimlet didn't cancel Mystery Show.

The artist that Spotify's algorithm recommends most often that I never listen to on my own volition: Maggie Rogers. She's fine.

I really enjoyed that Molly Young piece on tech garbage language, but also people who complain about "learnings" annoy me more than people who use "learnings". https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html

Haven't tried it, but Siuba looks like an exciting dplyr port for python. Might need to update my bs rationalizations for why I like R more than Python now. https://siuba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/noise-rainbow-road-rects

I made a generative art!

https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/noise