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If We Assume: PhD Thesis Done!
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Last week I defended my PhD thesis in astronomy! My brother-in-law was good enough to capture the event with my iPhone, so I'm sharing it here for anyone interested. The talk is full of astronomy data visualizations, some that I created last year for talks, and some new! Plus, the subject matter is NASA's epic Kepler. Mission, so I got that going for me. Davenport PhD Thesis Talk. The slides are a bit hard to see, so I'll post those online soon (and will update with a link). Monday, July 13, 2015. Name y...
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If We Assume: Report: Gender in AAS Talks
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Report: Gender in AAS Talks. Today I'm proud to announce that my AAS 223 Hack Day project is finally. Our "paper" (really an informal report) on the study of gender in AAS talks has hit astro-ph:. Http:/ arxiv.org/abs/1403.3091. So I decided to organize a volunteer effort to study this. We collected data using a simple web-form (that Morgan Fouesneau graciously helped me make), and asked conference attendees to record the gender of every speaker and every question asker for talks they attended. Blue is t...
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If We Assume: Gender study at the IAU meeting
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Gender study at the IAU meeting. For any astronomers heading to Hawaii next week for the big IAU meeting. Please consider helping me continue the study of gender demographics at astronomy conferences. This conference brings together the largest and most diverse group of astronomers for 2 weeks of science and sunshine. It's also a perfect chance to continue my ongoing study of gender in speakers versus question askers. The web form is here. And will be active for the entire 2 weeks of the conference!
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If We Assume: Best Selling Book Covers
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Best Selling Book Covers. Be sure to subscribe. For updates on this and all my other data analysis projects! After I finished my masters degree in San Diego, a good friend of mine gifted me a book he thought I'd enjoy. Probably unbeknownst to this friend, my parents and family had long since given up on trying to get me to read books for pleasure. While I'd pour through pages on the internet, and have always loved cinema, I stopped reading (outside of school) when I was about 16. I do know a bit. Basic l...
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If We Assume: Name your child for success!
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Name your child for success! Shakespeare famously posed the question:. What's in a name? The answer may actually be: quite a bit! Your given name (and your family name, for that matter) likely contains a lot of subtle information about you and your history. For example, we often assume names correlate with gender (as I have in previous articles. Except the gender identity of some common names has changed over history ( examples here. Your name may also correlate with your political affiliation. Obviously...
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If We Assume: March 2015
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PAC-MAN: The End of March Mapness. Well we've come to the end of March. I was too busy the past few weeks to keep the high pace of map posts up, but I think we had a few gems. Next year we'll do even better! For the final post this month, I'm tipping my hat to Google who have created the best map of the month. Starting today, you can play PAC-MANin your browser using Google Maps! No seriously, try it! Tuesday, March 31, 2015. When Map Projections Go Awry. As a simple example:. The USA is about 5x larger.
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If We Assume: Press
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Here is a (not comprehensive) graphical list of press I've received. Click on any image to go to the source article. If you're from a news/media source and would like to chat or use my material, or you're interested in collaborating on a project, please send me a note from my Contact Me. If you see my material featured/mentioned anywhere, shoot me a message on Twitter. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Better Living Through Data. The (De-) evolution of My Laptop Battery. Name your child for success!
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If We Assume: Don't touch that dial...
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Don't touch that dial. It's been radio silence here since March. In case anyone was wondering "what the hell happened to Davenport's blog? I wanted to post a note saying: thesis. My PhD thesis defense is scheduled for mid July, and currently I'm racing to get the final chapter written! While this blog has languished, my GitHub profile. Has been conspicuously green. The above image is a play on the famous cover art from Joy Division's album " Unknown Pleasures. But uses actual data from my thesis. Uses co...
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If We Assume: Airports of the World
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Airports of the World. I've been busy in astronomy-land recently, trying to make some headway on my thesis before beginning a summer internship (more on both hopefully in the coming months! For this site, recently I've been playing with some interesting data, trying to find the "story" - which is really a way of saying I haven't found the truly clever. Question yet. Lots of pretty/interesting visualizations have been made, however. The World, Traced by Airport Runways. Click for high resolution version.
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If We Assume: PAC-MAN: The End of March Mapness
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PAC-MAN: The End of March Mapness. Well we've come to the end of March. I was too busy the past few weeks to keep the high pace of map posts up, but I think we had a few gems. Next year we'll do even better! For the final post this month, I'm tipping my hat to Google who have created the best map of the month. Starting today, you can play PAC-MANin your browser using Google Maps! No seriously, try it! Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Inappropriate comments, advertisements, or spam will be removed. Uses cookies t...
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