Today I figured out how to make charts in Excel! And I thought WOHOO that is amazing I should always do it like that THIS IS THE BEST.
Ok, no, I didn’t. Making Excel charts sucks. If I would have gone into charts because of Excel, I wouldn’t have gone into charts at all. There’s a very tiny chance that you like charts when you use Excel.
Today was a good day: I got to listen to a photo training by my co-worker Emily; there was a LOOK AT THIS meeting where we first admired and then ate candy; I had a great Pho for lunch (a vietnamese soup).
And one of the highlights of my day was helping Anne, an intern who wants to make a timeline with pretty exciting data. Meeting her was great: She showed me around places in that building that have been unknown to me: Eg NPR controls a satellite from here, from this very building I’m in! And I saw the room from where they did it and it looks like a mini-NASA-control-room (or maybe I’m just making this connection because I’m reading “The Martian” right now). And she showed me the News Lab and she told me about the Story Lab and I was like “WOAH you have a news lab?” and “WOAH you have a story lab??”. I really feel like I don’t know at all what’s going on at NPR. Yet.
Also, I continued my blog post! I figured out a good way to show what I want to show: GIFs. They’re the solution to everything.
Also, tonight I’m moving from Foggy Bottom to Columbia Heights…from my AirBnB where I lived since my Europe trip to a place where I will actually stay for the next 9 months. YEAH.
Input? 4
Output? 6
Learnings?
I should put my food always on actual plates than eating then from a plastic bowl with a plastic fork. The kitchen is not super close here. But it’s so worth it.
The Python Library MatPlotLib is not the easiest thing to get into.
Questions?
What are the best and what are the most used ways to code data visualisations besides ggplot2 and matplotlib and d3.js? Wait, I should ask Twitter that.