{"id":341,"date":"2008-05-06T02:03:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T06:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2008-05-06T02:03:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T06:03:44","slug":"visualizing-mannys-dingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/visualizing-mannys-dingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Manny&#8217;s Dingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh, a colleague from work, pointed out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/baseball\/redsox\/extras\/manny_500_homeruns\/\">totally cool interactive display<\/a> of Manny&#8217;s chase for 500 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>A significant portion of my job is dredging pools of data for insights that we can use to change our business.  After I dredge it, it&#8217;s equally important that I share it.  It&#8217;s one of those no-brainer points: if I can&#8217;t tell other people what I know, my knowledge is useless.  I find data visualization to be interesting and challenging.\u00c2\u00a0 How can I quickly and effectively show other people what I&#8217;ve learned from the data?<\/p>\n<p>The Globe graphic is more advanced than anything I do &#8211; I never try for an interactive display.  I admire it&#8217;s richness.  The more time you spend with it, the more you learn from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh, a colleague from work, pointed out this totally cool interactive display of Manny&#8217;s chase for 500 home runs. A significant portion of my job is dredging pools of data for insights that we can use to change our business. After I dredge it, it&#8217;s equally important that I share it. It&#8217;s one of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-sox","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}