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Final data visualization assignment for MOOC 14 Dec 2012 | 02:24 am
Here is my last submitted assignment for the Data Visualization course I’ve been taking. We were asked to find data — any data — that was of interest to us and determine the best way to present it to ...
Interactive data visualization for unemployment rate data 25 Nov 2012 | 10:31 am
My latest assignment for the data/infographic class I’m taking was to design an interactive data visualization from the unemployment data used by the Guardian in this map. I ran out of time to put a f...
Interactive data visualization for global aid transparency 18 Nov 2012 | 12:56 am
This week’s assignment for my class on Infographics & Data Visualization was to take data from the findings of an aid transparency index (that ranks global aid organizations on how well they conform t...
Reworking a New York Times Interactive Infographic 11 Nov 2012 | 01:44 am
I’m currently enrolled in a massive online class taught by graphics and data visualization guru Alberto Cairo and hosted by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. As a former newsroom resi...
How will this modern-day “Daisy” ad about climate change affect Romney’s campaign? 3 Nov 2012 | 03:22 am
We’re almost to the finish line, people, and while we’re all sick to death of political mud-slinging, I can’t help but still be fascinated by possibly pivotal moments in the campaign. Enter this incr...
Can’t log in to your WordPress subdomain blogs? 6 Jan 2012 | 01:55 pm
I recently tried my hand, once again, at installing another WordPress multisite/network on a Windows machine, but this time using subdomains instead of directories for blogs. The process was identical...
Problems downloading Excel files with an xlsx extension in WordPress 8 Jul 2011 | 11:47 am
The skinny: WordPress is appending xls to xlsx causing annoying error messages when a user tries to view those files. I’ve got a fix after the jump. And, unfortunately – for now, at least – it calls f...
WordPress plugin: XML-ify WordPress – Multiple Posts 16 Apr 2011 | 03:12 pm
This plugin generates an XML file using content from multiple blog posts. You decide how many of the latest posts you want included in the XML file. You can use the generated XML files to populate ph...
WordPress 404 error pages not displaying in IE 8 13 Apr 2011 | 11:43 am
Chalk this up to yet another reason to hate on Internet Explorer. IE 8 has at least three points of failure for your custom error pages. It will display its own error pages instead of yours if: Your ...
Applying one theme to multiple blogs in a WordPress Multisite network 3 Aug 2010 | 06:59 am
Here’s a good bit of code I found in the WordPress MU forums and slightly altered for my own purposes – conditional tag based on blog ID. This will work for WordPress 3.0: <!-- SWITCH CODE BASED ON B...
