![]() I’ve grown, and I’ve learned an amazing amount about myself, about Tableau, about Jeff. Then I still had to create a postcard, which was BY FAR the hardest part. Taking that data and trying to understand is even harder. Tracking data about yourself on a different topic for 52 weeks is not easy. Proud of who they’ve become, what they represent, and the impact they’re going to have on the World.įor Dear Data Two, it’s more bittersweet. Saying goodbye to them wasn’t about being sad, it was about being proud. What’s exciting for me is that I know the Data School is ready for their placements. Unfortunately I never found this out I rarely got too emotional saying goodbye. I wanted to track my emotions throughout the week to see if anyone or anything triggered me to be more emotional. Not only was this the final week for Dear Data Two, it was also the last week for the second cohort of the Data School. ![]() The timing for this week couldn’t have been any better. When do I say them? Who do I say them to? How emotional am I? How do I say goodbye? Week 52 of Dear Data Two was all about goodbyes. Goodbye - it’s something we say all the time. Thank you all for following us through this journey and I hope you have had as much fun as I have.Īndy tracked his goodbyes throughout the week: This has certainly had an impact on my data visualization work as well. I've never considered myself someone that draws, but I can definitely say that I am much more comfortable with sketching and drawing now. I also sharpened skills in so many areas, for example, I feel like I am much more efficient with Tableau and Adobe and I've honed some new skills. I've learned so much about myself too, tracking and analyzing things that I would never have done without going through this project. ![]() It was great to learn about him and his family. I feel very fortunate to have had Andy as a partner on this journey. These are represented as the sky with light blue dots.Īs Andy describes, this is a bittersweet goodbye. Combined, we have a total of 2,522 files for the entire project. The total of all the files is 5.3 gigabytes, which is represented by the number and size of trees. My file folders are shown as orange dots on the trees and Andy's in a dark green. The 52 postcards for Andy and I are shown on the pathway, Andy's in blue and mine in pink. 2,522 files (images, Excel files, Tableau workbooks).It was remarkable to see how many files and the data gathered throughout the past year. I gathered up some numbers and I was really surprised. I joked with Andy that he must have thought I gave up after 51 weeks and just threw in the towel.įor the postcard, I wanted to visualize the depth of the project. I had to laugh about it though because of all weeks to have that happen, it had to be the very last week of the project. I also made sure to confirm with Andy that it arrived. Thankfully the postcard was fine, so off to the mail it went, for real this time around. Then out of the blue, weeks later, my wife ran across it. I assumed my wife mailed it, because it wasn't on the desk, and just figured it was still in transit. He just assumed that I hadn't completed it yet. Weeks went by and I hadn't heard anything from Andy. However, the postcard somehow ended up falling behind some other papers on the desk. Interestingly, after completing this postcard, it ended up on a desk in my kitchen, which is where I always put it before going out in the mail. Ever since completing this it seems odd not to sit at my desk and draw weekly data on new postcards, but the end has come. It's a strange feeling being done with the project. Fifty-two weeks, gathering data and creating postcards. It's hard to believe that we are at the end of this project. Jeff looked at the statistics of all the data files for the Dear Data Two project: Thank you for joining us as we explore this project. We thought it would be fun and interesting to see the differences in the approach and design of the data and contribute to this amazing project. We are technology guys, using tools like Tableau and R to create data visualizations. Giorgia and Stefanie are amazing artists, which is evident in their work. We are both data visualization practitioners, teachers and regular speakers on the topic and we are big proponents of data visualization best practice. In the same manner as the original project, everything will be drawn by hand (although we both opted in week 1 to use a straight edge along with our gel ink pens). We have decided to keep with the same topics as the original project, but in a very broad sense. It is our intention to follow the original authors, week by week, creating our own visualizations on postcards, and mailing them to each other. We ( Jeffrey Shaffer and Andy Kriebel) decided to follow in their footsteps and coincidentally, Andy moved from California to London, England. This project was inspired by, a wonderful collaboration between Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec.
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