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I have stopped tracking this website. Here’s why.

Read full story / To track or not to track. That is a good question. Learn why I have decided not to track this website any longer.

Data Book Review: All Data Are Local

Read full story / A review of the book all data are local with some personal insights.

Questioning the openness of my data project

Read full story / How open is this thing called open data? And how open are my own projects?

A little DataViz tribute to The Secret Lives of Planets

Read full story / Space is big. How big? This visualisation gives you an idea.

Generating an GIF animation using Matplotlib and Imageio

Read full story / How to generate a GIF of your data visualisations using Matplotlib and Imageio.

Book Review: Lady Astronaut’s Secret Messages

Read full story / I read about the Caesar cipher encryption in a sci-fi book and went looking for secret messages inside.

Tech Book Review: A personal view on Technics and Civilizations

Read full story / What can a 90-year-old book teach me about my contemporary life? Quite a few things it seems.

An easy way to generate custom colormaps in Matplotlib

Read full story / A simple trick to make single-color shades in Matplotlib.

On the internet you will find what you want to find

Read full story / Certain services on the internet are designed to show you what you want to see and make you hooked.

Celebrate your team’s failures and find their strengths

Read full story / Learning from failures should be a common practice. Learn how to apply it to team development.