Why Odysseus Has Many Epithets
There is a hard word to translate in The Odyssey. And it’s in the second line of the epic poem. It is the epithet—the adjective, or byname—for Odysseus. In the proem, or the invocation to the muse, Homer asks the…
Short Stories
Collection of short posts and short stories.
15 Minutes vs 14 Hours: The Reality of Custom Data Visualisation
I spent 14 hours creating a custom data visualisation (a recreation of a template that took 15 minutes to customise). Why? We’ll get to that later. But for now, it means you can get a behind-the-scenes peek of how your…
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FIFA, you insanely corrupt institution. (Source: BBC)
Luck and Risk
“Luck and risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. They are so similar that you can’t believe in one without equally respecting the other. They both happen because the…
AI and Educating Intuition
In the vast swamp of ignorance that has been the debate about AI in the workplace, I’ve slowly been coming to the conclusion… There is a large number of people with full time knowledge work jobs that don’t understand the…
Excessive planning is a fools game
The trouble with being so emotionally invested in planning for the future, though, is that while it may occasionally prevent a catastrophe, the rest of the time it tends to exacerbate the very anxiety it was supposed to allay. The…
The Book of the New Sun Pt1 – The Shadow of the Torturer Review
I was 17-18 the first time I read The Book of the New Sun, and I remember it melting my mind. For the first time everything I’d hated about English classes: the interpretation of what authors meant, the use of…
It’s called France
Source: How English costs the English — Janan Ganesh, FT
Why is D3 Code So Long and Complicated (or Why is it So Verbose)?
D3 is a b***h of a language at first glance. It’s long. It’s complicated and verbose. You have to enter what feels like an obscene amount of key strokes to draw one line. I’m currently about one-third of the way…
Part 7 of 7 – My First Predictive Analytics Project
This is the end of a long series of posts. Here I show an example of how I put together the data story for my market basket analysis. This is the final post in My First Predictive Analytics Project series.…