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January 13, 2022 Four posts

13-Jan-2022

It’s an honor to get to play in huge surf. Bracing, beautiful afternoon at the tail of a nice swell.

IFTTT swim2022 via-instagram

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13-Jan-2022

Spielberg’s Films by “Year of Release” versus “Year Set” The other day, over on twitter, Todd Vaziri sent a lazyweb request that piqued my interest: free cinema chart idea chart the films of steven spielberg and graph the release date minus the year the film takes place you know, for fun How does one do timelines these days anyway? I had a vague memory...

movies programming visualization
13-Jan-2022

New Bot Day! “Blaster T-1000” is merchandise based on Terminator 2: Judgement Day. His whole torso can hinge forward to fire a missile? This 1991 toy robot makes no sense but is a great villain in an “all cops are bastards” way.

IFTTT robots via-instagram

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13-Jan-2022

Sparklines in Excel courtesy seminar by Jordan Goldmeier I attended Jordan Goldmeier’s (advancedxl.com) seminar on data visualization in Excel via one of Creative Morning‘s Field Trips. It is far easier to do cool stuff in Excel than I remember. Behold a sparkline bar graph of my ArtLung blog post counts by month since 2001.

data excel programming visualization