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Xaquín G.V.
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Co-founder of the Visualization for Transparency Foundation
@fndvit.bsky.social Ex- @theguardian.com @nytimes.com and NatGeo. Dad, husband, Galician. He / him.
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All students were awe inspiring.

In the end, “Donicelas” —professional jury— and “Raposos” —popular vote— won.

(Yah, we took our team names from the Galician forest 🌳 🦊 🐗 )

Next week, we’ll merge all the PRs and publish the results.
A GenXer attempts a Gen Z selfie of the group in the classroom, after a long hackathon. Six students posing with their awards (a book and a card collection). To the right, two of their professors, and sponsors of the hackathon via the ViT Foundation, happy and proud of their work. The winning team, selected by the professional jury, receives a commemorative diploma from the award sponsors, Eurecat. The six students pose with their awards next to the sponsor’s representatives. The winning team explains their results and methods to the rest of the class at the end of the hackathon.
February 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Yesterday, we held the fourth edition of our Data Science Hackathon.

1 dataset, 4 DS scenarios. ½ a week to prep. And 12 hours of madness 🤪, coffee ☕️ , sandwiches and pizza 🍕. (And 🗺️ and 📊 and 🐛)

Thanks to @univgirona.bsky.social @eurecat.bsky.social @fndvit.bsky.social for sponsoring.
Two instructors seating on the desk working. In the foreground, the classroom door with a poster of the hackathon. To the right, in the background, a student explains his reasoning for a data science project on a blackboard. To the left, in the foreground, a classmate is focusing on a computer task. Two students smile while working on their laptops. In the foreground, some sandwiches they stole from the common area, to fuel their overworked brains. A very serious group of students around a table, working with their laptops. Flowing …
February 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Everything’s ready for tomorrow’s hackathon!! @univgirona.bsky.social @fndvit.bsky.social @eurecat.bsky.social

This year’s theme is energy efficiency certifications.

mds-hackathon-25-fndvit.vercel.app
February 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Every class, I ask a team of students to take notes of our conversations —as in the debates and critique sessions we have. They are the “annotation team.”

I just read this in last session’s.

“Xaquín attempted to draw a world map”

The audacity!!!
Xaquín draws a gorgeous world map in a whiteboard.
January 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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It's 6 classes and a hackathon —shared with the Project Management subject. The 6th session is reserved for the final project presentations.

The syllabus is:
- Why Visualize
- A Visual Language
- Let's Talk Color
- The Age of (Data) Exploration
- Data-driven visual storytelling
Cover of the second lesson: A (visual) language, the background is a close up of a woman's eye looking at you.
December 5, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 is a way to stay positive when faced with horrific charts. Every week, a few students bring bad charts they've seen out there, and we all have to find something good to say about it, any aspect where things didn't go completely wrong.
A misleading chart showing average female height. The baseline starts at around 4'10", so the 5'0" Indian women look as if they only measured a couple of inches, and were scared by the gigantic Latvian women.
December 5, 2024 at 11:09 AM