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let’s just see what the morning brings
Just over a month since I got my last tattoo, I have added another one to the collection. This one is even more difficult to get decent pictures of than that one was, because it spirals around my calf.
more hip visualizations, part 0_1
A while back, I started messing around with data visualization stuff, and came up with a chloropleth North American map that attempted to show the places the Tragically Hip played most often. I now have a slightly shinier and more granular map that shows cities, which is step 0.1 on the way to glory. Not that I have any idea what constitutes ‘glory’ in this instance, but I’m told that life is about the journey, not the destination.
you’ll be serving the song
This isn’t a personal blog, so I don’t really say much about what I’m up to, but I found a few pictures from the Amsterdam concert I went to last week. And I am actually in one of them! I always appreciate photographic evidence that I’m not making up my entire life.
These photos on flickr, by Henk Ritskes, are all really good.
This is early in the show, and nothing is going on right there, so it’s pretty calm. Just over the watermark, you can see my face right at Gord’s feet, my arms on the stage, looking up. I’m not kneeling; I’m on my toes. I look like I’m about eight years old. I didn’t feel like it at the time, but I look ridiculously tiny in that photograph. Note that I’m surrounded by guys who are all much, much bigger than I am.
data visualizations and the tragically hip, part 0
The very short background to this is that I love data visualizations, and I love the Tragically Hip. So when I saw this tutorial on making chloropleth maps with python, I thought, hey, I can totally do that. I’ve been wanting to mess around with data visualization stuff for a while now, and this seemed like a pretty good place to start. I decided I wanted to generate a map of North America showing me where the Hip has played most often. Seemed like a pretty simple and straightforward place to start.