2020 Year in Review (sort of)

How to talk about travel and work in 2020. There’s the usual thoughts about the meetings that didn’t happen, travel that could have been, and friends that we haven’t seen. This isn’t so much a rehash of the year as it is a retrospective on things how things started and how things are going.

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2018 in Review, Travel Log

As you probably know, the life of an astronomer is usually one filled with travel. If you’re an optical astronomer (I’m not), then this also includes jetting off around the globe to observe at a variety of observatories that are usually located in the middle of nowhere. This year was no different for me, but… Continue reading 2018 in Review, Travel Log

Good figures, or bad figures?

With the propagation of data science throughout most industries, the quality of inventive graphics on websites has gone through the roof. This page came across my Facebook feed and is a great example of how awesome interactive graphics can be on a site. Let’s play “Good figures, or bad figures?”!

Spring Cleaning (travel mind edition)

This year my travel has been fairly hectic. While it’s rather on par (or below) for a scientist, this means that it’s above and beyond the pale for a “normal” person.

Reducing Infinites, redux

It’s been a little over a year since the last time I really tried to purge extraneous content from my daily data ingest. Just wanted to give a status update.