Commuters

#Romania full #CERN ahead!

“The accession of #Romania to full #CERN membership underlines the importance of European #research collaboration in the quest to understand nature at its most fundamental level,” said Professor Sijbrand de Jong, President of the CERN Council.

Did you know that ants flow like melted cheese?

I guess this is a thing? Ok.

On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was. 

“It’s October 3rd.” - Mean Girls

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some FUCKING MORON accidentally paypaled me some money when they meant to send it to someone else. i am a nice person, so i forwarded the notification email to them saying, this seems like a mistake, i don’t want to keep your money for no reason. they then flagged the payment as problematic - which removes my ability as a receiver to issue a refund - and now have sent me TWENTY EMAILS demanding that i return the money immediately. a) i don’t have it, paypal is holding it, and b) paypal won’t let me return it and c) now i’m on hold with paypal trying to resolve this, ALL THIS GUY’S FAULT.

Last Military Engagement Win

A new mall has been built in China. But this isn’t just any old mall, this mall includes a small zoo. In this zoo six Beluga Whales are on display in a small, sterile tank. It opened just last month in 2016, and is called the “Grandview International Polar Ocean World.” As well as Belugas, this indoor “aquarium” (if it can even be called this), holds 30,000 other animals, from marine mammals to small fish.

It is most likely that these animals were captured from a wild. Imagine living in the diverse ecosystem that is the ocean, only to be lifted up from your vast home into a small pool with five other animals. You cannot go anywhere, you barley have move to room. Now really, does this sound humane? I think not.

PC: Grandview International Polar Ocean World.

Tumblr Web Data Connector

A colleague of mine was recently running a session on Google Analytics and showed how to use blending with an Excel spreadsheet to demonstrate the impact that certain blog posts had on page views. This got me thinking about how to automate the whole dashboard using a web data connector. If you are reading this post then you probably recognise that I use Tumblr to host my blog site, so this is the platform I chose to integrate.

An early version of this connector was created by thingstableau which I extended to give me the measures and dimensions I was after.

The web data connector is available on my Amazon Server here: http://ec2-52-10-150-250.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/tumblrsearch/tumblrwebconnect.html, and the code is on github here.

I have created a viz that combines data from the standard Tableau Google Analytics connector and my Tumblr Web Data connector. Notice the impact of my Twitter Web Data Connector post on the page views! Click on image to open the viz on Tableau Public.

Want it now. Really fucking do.