Hi everyone!

A know many of you were interested in learning web technologies over your break.  When I was first learning web development, this was my best friend: https://www.freecodecamp.org/. The tutorials will run your code and check correctness for you. The lessons progress in bite sized increments.

This is my day job, so I know these well.…[Read more]

For anyone interested, here is the NYT dialect quiz we talked about in class. It’s good fun. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

Since Professor McSweeney was so excited by all of our visualizations, I really want to see everyone’s! If you are so inclined, post a link to your blog. 🙂

I have been subscribed to a newsletter called Data is Plural for a few years now. Every week it gives you links to several public datasets you can explore. It’s really amazing.

If you don’t know what you’re going to do for your final project, you might find some inspiration here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8…[Read more]