The What Side projects keep me happy. I couldn’t really imagine learning without them, and I think I’ve genuinely learnt the most about data, programming, and visualization while tinkering away on something that just caught my interest. This talk is about embracing that slightly chaotic, but very rewarding, world of side projects as a personal playground for learning. I want to share a little bit… more

Submission type: Showcase A few weeks ago, I got hold of a little USB radio receiver. When you plug this into your laptop, it can hear all sorts of things, like shortwave, FM, chatter of air traffic control and flights passing overhead, pictures sent down from Russian weather satellites and so on. While that sounds cool, in these circles it is fairly unremarkable. But most mornings, somewhere aro… more