Today was a far better day because the sadness slowly vanished and because three new interns showed up. And it was also a little bit frustrating because I was working on a flow chart with a tool called ai2html. It promises to take Illustrator designs and turn them into HTML code. Which is nice. But the problem was that my flow chart’s existence was based on the idea that text goes into boxes. And if you resize these boxes (because mobile phones are smaller than desktop computer screens), the text doesn’t resize, but just breaks differently. So….yeah, making that thing responsive was a big challenge today. Ai2html also couldn’t handle text box fills and styling individual words in text. It was very limiting in this sense. But hey, it’s working for all your phones now, too. (It will be published tomorrow.) And Katie taught me a lot about Github Branches, which was definitely a highlight.
Also, Juan and I got a huge data set, that’s unfortunately weirdly unclean but still very interesting. I’ve never really cleaned up so much data. I’m looking forward to learning how to do it.
Aaaand today are the last Primaries (in California, among others), and I stayed late to see Alyson and Tyler do Elex magic.
Input? 6
Output? 5
Learnings?
Error codes in Excel files are indicated by negative values.
It’s possible (and frustrating) to wait half an hour for Foodtruck food.
Branches are great for working on a major change in the master branch without messing up the major branch.
Questions?
How does the covering racial disparity influence racial disparity?