System monitor (in rings), with date and time. Ubuntu with Conky

Vintage Viz: Beautiful rings on your Linux desktop with Conky

Alison Pitt June 30, 2020

System stats can be beautiful, too. Once upon a time, I used Conky on Ubuntu to visualize things like memory usage, disk space and battery percentage, rendered as dynamic rings right there on my desktop.

Vintage Viz: Using Conky to display conditional system information on a Linux desktop

Vintage Viz: Fun with the new Conky 1.7.1.1

Alison Pitt June 29, 2020

Take a walk down memory lane with a fun Conky viz (of sorts) from back in 2009. This article was originally published on My Little Desktop in August of 2009.

Global efforts to empower women economically: Where should we focus?

Alison Pitt June 29, 2020

This week’s Makeover Monday data (2020 week 26) comes from the World Bank, who reported on how countries around the world are making progress on economic equality for women.

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How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau

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When you’re exploring math concepts in Tableau, you don’t necessarily need a full data set to do it. Here’s how to use a 2-record seed to create an expanding data set for all your math exploration needs (in my case, learning about triangular numbers).

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An Exploration of Incomplete Open Cubes

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For a recent JLL viz challenge and Iron Quest, I explored an Alteryx + Tableau recreation of Sol LeWitt’s “Incomplete Open Cubes” (1974). I created all the cubes, then I visualized them in Tableau; this is how I did it.

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What size dashboard should you use for a nice Tableau Public thumbnail?

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It’s not obvious what dashboard aspect ratio to aim for if you want a nice-looking thumbnail on Tableau Public, but I did some digging and found the best one. For now, at least.

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Let's talk about recovering from setbacks

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I scrapped a whole video because it wasn’t up to scratch. Afterward, I made a video about not making a video. Let me explain!

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7 things you can do to up your data game while job searching

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So, you’re a data nerd, you’re looking for a new job, and you just reached the end of the list of jobs to apply for. What do you do next? This is exactly the situation that I have found myself in several times in the last few months, so I thought I’d compile a list of the things that I’ve done to keep myself engaged while in a lull.

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Visualizing Star Trek

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It’s no surprise that I’m into Star Trek. So what happens when my love of data collides with my fandom? I make a viz that turns the scripts of my favorite movies into an explorable piece of art.

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A few pitfalls of the small data set

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Think a small data set is easier to visualize? Think again. You have to pay as much attention to what’s NOT in the set as what is…or you risk misinforming your audience! This article explores some of the recent pitfalls I tried to avoid in the latest Makeover Monday challenge.

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Vintage Viz: Beautiful rings on your Linux desktop with Conky

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