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Basic viz can still look funky if you try hard enough. Conky on Ubuntu, 2009

Basic viz can still look funky if you try hard enough. Conky on Ubuntu, 2009

Vintage Viz: Kicking it really old school

Alison Pitt June 30, 2020

Everyone has to start somewhere. In my case, I started visualizing basic system stats with Conky on an Acer Aspire One netbook. Good times.

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

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.

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

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Global efforts to empower women economically: Where should we focus? Data source: World Bank

Global efforts to empower women economically: Where should we focus? Data source: World Bank

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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In Data Viz Tags Makeover Monday
Go ahead…breathe! Used properly, a plugin like Waves DeBreath can take the worry away

Go ahead…breathe! Used properly, a plugin like Waves DeBreath can take the worry away

Working with Waves DeBreath

Alison Pitt - Admin November 29, 2017

Waves DeBreath is a great plugin that's saved me hours of work. Find out how to use it and where to find it.

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Loudness, RMS and peak are not the same things! Do you know the difference?

Loudness, RMS and peak are not the same things! Do you know the difference?

Loudness, RMS, and Peak, Oh My!

Alison Pitt - Admin November 22, 2017

This week’s topic for discussion is all about the difference between loudness, RMS, and peak amplitude, and to what levels you should be mastering your audio.

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In Audio Production
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