Raithe

Breaking down what they ask for in that presentation for the interview, and I'm realising that it would basically be a day or two actual work if it was happening in a professional office / project situation. You're talking a good day of data cleansing and processing from raw data set, to something workable, and then a second day of transforming and figuring out what sort of story it tells and visualising it. At a minimum. Before even starting on putting it into a 10 minute presentation that makes sense. At home. With only open source software. Snark. Grumble.

Took a general pause from things today, and put my focus on something different. The fruits and spices have been soaking in the brandy for the last week or so, so it was time to mix up the rest of the christmas cake and now it's in the oven baking. The only acceptable mention of christmas prior to halloween...

With a "hint" of politics...

https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist

I used to re-read the series each time a new book was released. So I've read the individual books many times, but the entire series from beginning to end I've only done a couple of times since it was wrapped up. But it does hit a point where you've read a book so many times you start to skim through paragraphs and chapters and focus more on the parts of the story that fit whatever mood you're in rather than "properly" read the entire thing.

I skim read my way through through the first four last weekend. Started the 5th.... I have to admit, visually and mood that really handled Lan well to my mind.

Found out I've been shortlisted for an interview in a couple of weeks, but I need to prepare a 10 minute presentation on any random data set I want to use. So now I have to find some open source data set I might find interesting for playing with. On other notes, I'm thinking I should have looked further for fabric glues than the one that turned out to have a 48 hour cure time...