At the beginning of this year, I had two jobs.  By March, however, I had quit one and been informed that I was, for all intents and purposes, being laid off from the other.  While this wasn’t a huge surprise, I was still pretty disappointed – time to start the job-hunt again.  I brushed up my resume, pulled all my references together, and got started searching.  As I applied and attended job fairs and the like I started noticing a disheartening trend, however.  I’m graduating in May with a degree in music composition, but applying for technical jobs.  More than I once, I was turned down without further consideration as soon as the recruiter got to the education section of my resume.

Rather than be coy about my education, however, I’m combining the fact that much of my applying for jobs happens online with my resume into a visual resume that offers all the same information while show-casing my design and visualization abilities.

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I don't really have a real post for here, 'cause I don't really feel all that connected with LJ anymore! Instead, have a dog and an ott!

acy and I have a song now!

...is a healthy one.

Not going to go through the whole weekend and recap everything, 'cause that'd be silly, and I forgot a whole lot anyway! Spent a lot of the con chilling with James and Jill around the hotel, much of that time in suit. At one point there was a mead tasting with Jill (and three of her friends), James, Acy, Vlad, Soluco (and one of his Asian posse), Tsuki, Roma, and Here. Everyone liked the sack metheglin, so I'll try to make a five gallon batch when I can afford the honey, soon enough. Went out for amazing sushi with John, Jane, and James on Santana Row. Went to a youtube party. Got separated from the other otters in the parade because I'm really dumb. Danced way too much at the dead dog with one of those otters - angry otter suit, shy Canadian guy. Drank a lot of Philz coffee, gin and tonics, and $12 hotel mojitos.

I didn't really do a whole lot, all told - I only peeked in on a few panels, and I never went through the dealers den out of suit - but it was still a really fun con. Also, didn't drink or spend nearly as much as I normally do! Pictures of the ottsuit are slowly trickling in, here's a few!

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5103894
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5100230
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5123132
http://www.dragonscales.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=42&pid=20230#top_display_media

Still waiting on ones from when I was wearing stretching out my sweater vest, or any of the partial with the dressy clothes. Will post them at some point.

( I may be a furry. )

Happy 2011 :3

Two new aspects visualized: species and a choropleth of population for the US.  I had to grab, shred, and parse the data myself from responses to forum topics (i.e.: members would respond with their location and a moderator would add their name to one enormous list – I had to turn that into JSON with magic), so the data may not be terribly accurate, but some trends may be visible.  Since they’re separate but related, I’ve added them to a different section of the site.

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It’s been a busy few days at home and work.  Work itself was really slow, so I started working on one large visualization project and wound up completing another smaller one in the meantime.  I may need to take a break from protovis for a little while, as I’ve been working for several days straight on these projects.

The smaller of the two projects was a very fast (about two hours) visualization of data regarding a disturbing punishment discrepancy between heterosexual/non-heterosexual teens by both the justice system and schools.  You can see in the vis that, in some cases, non-heterosexual teens can be two to three times as likely to be punished by schools or police.  Some reasons for this are debated in the original article that was pointed out to me.  The comments section on the article is rather distressing, I should warn.

The second, larger project has taken up most of my energy over the past few days.  A friend pointed me toward the results of the Furry Survey, which I hadn’t seen before.  The furry community differs from society at large in several very important demographic areas, from gender to sexual orientation (or at least openness regarding the same), to mean age.  With these important differences, I felt that a series of visualizations was almost necessary.  I’ve pulled those together into a dashboard that displays each visualization in miniature (not just thumbnails – the visualizations are reconstructed in miniature within the dashboard).  Check it out and find out some neat things about the furry fandom.  If you don’t know what furries are… well, Google carefully.

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Another neato inexpensive commission, this time from Patto



Yep, still a dandy. :D