This is just amazing: This is Manhattan in the evening via Twitter GPS traces. He tracks people’s location over 4 hour periods and the lines represent their movements. Movements go from blue to red, so longer trails and more red means people are more on the move. I love the evening picture above. If you [...]
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Happiness graphs make me sad
http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/25/world-happiness-report-makes-statisticians-unhappy/ There’s a couple of graphs but here’s one: And his quote from Kaiser Fung: I’m really curious how these domains add up to 100% exactly. Since the data came from some kind of survey, you typically would allow each respondent to pick more than one domains in which he or she is happy. If [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 1, 2012
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Kalyani Magazine
Inspired by my writing group, I have started a literary magazine for anyone, but especially writers out there who never have considered publishing their work. It’s for women of colour because it is a niche that still has room for more, and honestly I felt it was easier to market it when it is as [...]
Posted by Shubha on April 29, 2012
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How to turn an old computer box into a drawer…
We’ve been clearing our office of the decade of old junk that seems to have accumulated and I saw this and decided we just could not throw it away. The colours and the look are too amazing. It cries to be turned into a drawer or storage unit (either you should pull the front out, [...]
Posted by Shubha on April 13, 2012
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Post-retreat poetry
Now I’m on to the Poland part of my two weeks, so I haven’t had time to reflect on the 7 day silent retreat. I did cheat a bit. I wrote 3 poems. The Notice Board Clean, white messenger. Notice board, like an iPhone. Addictive power? Its rare, precious offerings. For me? Nope. Next time. [...]
Posted by Shubha on April 1, 2012
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Parental Leave Around the World
(Click to enlarge) Since living in the US, I’ve noticed that although many Americans know that parental leave sucks here, they don’t realize just how bad they’ve got it. Media reports often compare the US just to Sweden or Germany and all social services are better there, so it’s hardly a fair comparison. What people [...]
Posted by Shubha on March 19, 2012
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Parental Leave Around the World – data
To examine parental leave around the world, I needed a way to rank and compare countries for creating my graph. I calculated the equivalent paid days of work and ranked them based on this value. For unpaid days, I pretended there was a 1% of income pay, since unpaid days needed to count for something [...]
Posted by Shubha on March 19, 2012
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There is a deep dark secret…
Here is another one from my writing class. Be warned – it’s gruesome in only the way a long-time vegetarian (not anymore) can be when trying to write about a butcher shop. Our writing instructions: write about someone revealing of a deep, dark secret – and pay special attention to describing the environment. ————————————————————————————————— I [...]
Posted by Shubha on March 2, 2012
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The League of Moveable Types!
Hand-selected free fonts!!! It’s beautiful! http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Posted by Shubha on February 21, 2012
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Molly (/Susie) and Marcel Monkey!
For Christmas Preethi and I made these monkeys for our niece (Molly). The pattern was made, and is freely available, by an obviously awesome woman Larissa and are called Molly Monkey patterns. Actually Preethi, who is an awesome crafter, improvised on the male monkey. For the girl one that I made, here are the pieces [...]
Posted by Shubha on February 15, 2012
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