Two good things happened today (well, more than two good things happened, and of course the two things were a combination of lots of smaller good things, too…but yaknowwhatImean).
First, I went on a bike tour. What’s the difference between “a bike tour” and “commuting to work with a bike”? There is none.
Well, ok, my bike tour took me twice as long as my normal commute. And it included: A bike repair (I didn’t know it’s that easy to repair a slipped bike chain), because nobody is perfect and that includes Capital Bikeshare bikes. A confusion on my side because my beloved navigation app (Citymapper) is not perfect either. An even greater confusion, because there seems to be a fantastic park in DC which turns out to be an Armed Forces Retirement Home and not open for the public. That tour was definitely something. I should consider more morning tours.
The second great thing was preceded by a mistake: I messed up data and so it showed confetti when I plotted it on a map. It looked pretty random. No patterns. And we wondered: Is this the story? How can that be? Then we started looking at individual cases. And thought: Yeah, that definitely can’t be. The data must be wrong. And it was! So the great thing was the elimination of the bad thing. The contrast was…stark. Suddenly: Patterns! Interesting outliers! So many stories to tell! It was like christmas.
And it feels great to get more and more comfortable in dyplr and ggplot2. When stuff just….works.
Input? 4
Output? 8
Learnings?
dyplr might be one of the best things out there.
The difference between candy prices at TARGET and at GIANT is huge. In favor of TARGET.
Questions?
Some people say “We are all rational, even when we’re making irrational decisions - eg because investing time to make a rational decision would be irrational.” Some people say “we are so much less rational than we think. We are driven by conscious and unconscious manipulation, hormones, external factors.” I can find examples for both opinions. Who is right? In which cases are they right? Where is the border between these opinions?
Most poetic but also cryptic Twitter DM?
“You paint on something that other people …don’t paint on. You have a point of view on something that wouldn’t even exist without a point of view. But that can be described by other perspectives as well.”