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Pathways in data
As a budding data practitioner with serious attention and focus issues, it’s been difficult to discern a path through the data landscape. It was a miracle I landed on this field as an interest in the first place, having toyed with the idea of going into cybersecurity (at one time!) and completed a master’s degree…
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Scrape data from a set of YouTube videos
Someone wise once wrote: write up the times you figured something out; you never know when someone else (or future you!) will find the walk-through to be helpful. (I’m paraphrasing. Heavily.) This last week, I finally wrote a script I’d had on my to-do list for a long time. I needed to grab video views…
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A Return, Again
It’s a truth, universally acknowledged, that a person raised on the web must be in want of a blog. Unfortunately, the regular upkeep of a blog is nigh-impossible in the attention economy. The general blog format also appears to have transitioned from personal tell-all to how-to guide of sorts, at least in the tech industry.…
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How to upgrade Trello for Microsoft Teams (and solve the disappearing tab problem)
So, long hiatus ignored, I’m following the wisdom that if you solve a technical problem, no matter how small, you should post about it. And this problem was annoying enough that I had to open a support ticket, so maybe someone else could use the help at some point in the future. This week, I…
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Week: July 15-21, 2019. Considering the future, purpose, and intentionality.
Well, it’s been a doozy of a fortnight in Diliaur-land. I skipped the week of July 8-14, and it shall remain skipped. I think I have figured out another way to structure these posts. I do want to continue to note down accomplishments in order to track my time, but this is also the chance…