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I hope you don’t mind if I also contribute, even if it’s a few months old…
Orange and black cat in a doorway. A poster of the orange cat on a black door with a white doorframe in a blue wall. There are graffiti tags all over. The cat’s name is Negull, apparently.
March 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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And it’s not that Tableau is fantastic - it also requires tons of hacks to do some basic things (I’m looking at you MIN(0.0) table headings)… But Power BI feels so much like it was designed by committee, and every workspace has weird overlaps with the other.
The four workspaces of Power BI - viz, table, model, and DAX
January 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Owen on #caturday. Not at all embarrassed.
January 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Am I colorblind?

Silver Spring Farmers Market.
A sign that says “Brussel Sprouts $4.50/pint” under a table of pint boxes of carrots.
November 23, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Light snow flakes on a streetscape with houses and apartment buildings.
November 22, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Owen today: before and after.
Before: A brown shaggy dog bounding out of a creek over a leaf-strewn landscape. After: A well-groomed brown dog with a turquoise collar and a yellow necktie.
November 12, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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Map of North Carolina with blue and red circles proportional in size to outstanding vote counts from CNN Map of North Carolina with blue and red circles proportional in size to outstanding vote counts from CNN. This time with John King and Jake Tapper explaining stuff.
November 6, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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Glacier in Iceland with a green mountain in the background the curve of the glacier mimics the curve of the mountain.
October 28, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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From my NNE-facing balcony in downtown Silver Spring, MD
Sky with pink haze of aurora borealis, Silver Spring, MD. 12th-floor balcony. Sky with pink haze of aurora borealis, Silver Spring, MD. 12th-floor balcony. Sky with pink haze of aurora borealis, Silver Spring, MD. 12th-floor balcony. Sky with pink haze of aurora borealis, Silver Spring, MD. 12th-floor balcony.
October 11, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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#aurora from Silver Spring, MD
Sky with pink haze of aurora borealis Sky with pink haze of aurora borealis Sky with pink haze of aurora borealis Sky with pink haze of aurora borealis
October 10, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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Looks like I was a little late to the party. Still on Mastodon, mostly, but it looks like the all the data-viz folks are primarily posting here.
Celebrating 10M users #3,295,193 A A Ron @amsilverman.com Joined Feb 6, 2024
September 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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That’s quite a liquor box!
His spectacular fall - after F.B.I. agents caught him accepting $1.8 million worth of casino chips, luxury hotel stays, **a liquor box full of cash and prostitutes from Chinese developers** - was cast by federal prosecutors as an epic Hollywood tale. They persuaded a judge in January to sentence him to 13 years in prison on charges of tax evasion and racketeering.
August 29, 2024 at 1:26 PM