Tag: Visualization

So, as you may have guessed most universities went remote with classes. We had an extra week of spring break so that faculty and students could make some adjustments. I was thrilled to hear it because I’m still juggling caring for my hubs and trying to make the best of sorting out how to get…… Continue reading Getting Feedback: Pandemic Edition

Well, it’s roughly mid-semester and I feel like I haven’t made much progress though I’ve been working non-stop acquiring data and manually fixing errors as much as I am able. In my excitement, I proposed a project that is probably more than what can be done in just a few months. Given I’m a one-woman…… Continue reading Focus on Gender

Documentation One of the most challenging aspects of grad school while juggling a research assistant position and course work is setting aside time to write documentation about your process. You are moving so fast and switching mindsets between projects, classes, and types of projects (writing for documentation and narratives is different from an academic paper)…… Continue reading Data Visualization Design Process

I’ve been fortunate to have spent the last year and a half with classmates who have engineering and programming backgrounds. They taught me to persist when programming. If something doesn’t work, try again. Console.log, Google, Stackoverflow, talk out the syntax out loud are all options I practice on a daily basis these days. But when…… Continue reading Learning When to Stop

Image paths – Check. The realization my master Excel workbook (merged from multiple workbooks with multiple sheets) had a sort order different from the workbook with my image paths? Roadblock. What I thought would be a simple copy entire column A from workbook 1 (all image file paths) to column B in workbook 2 (empty…… Continue reading Match Image File Paths to Image IDs Across Excel Sheets