SEEKING WORK - EU, English, French - Contract, remote

- Location: Berlin

- Technologies: Svelte, React, D3.js, R, QGIS, TypeScript, Clojure/Clojurescript

- Website: https://basilesimon.fr

- Github: https://github.com/basilesimon

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Freelance dataviz practitioner, creative technologist. All about telling a story from data and helping products do just that in a memorable way. Former BBC, Times, Reuters.

I work across the stack and encompass statistics and modelling as well as design and building of the bespoke output, in addition to standing up whichever data pipeline or API.

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Contact: basile@basilesimon.fr

Posts like these are fun.

OP, I am now curious about using Docker to manage dotfiles and some installs. Could you tell us more about it, or give some resources to get started?

What resources other than the Docker quickstart do you need? He is basically using a VM to contain all of his settings and software.

Thank you for the link, I'm going to have a look at that.

Two other tools do similar things too:

- Datawi.re, by Annabel Church [1]

- Stream Tools, by the NYT [2]

[1]: http://datawi.re/ [2]: http://nytlabs.github.io/streamtools/

Or why you shouldn't do the doc last minute! Any suggestions here are very welcome.

To have a look at some snippets, I would recommend going through the wizard, then cracking open one of the examples. The plumbing is a bit overly-complicated, though, I am sure there is a way to make queries in a simpler way.

Hey, well done! Got my first after putting together immigration stats from many European countries and making a nice viz out of it.

Hehe, yes, there's an opened issue about the install process on Mac - we couldn't perform tests over the weekend!

Cron wouldn't work on Windows either, by the way.

Yeah, we thought about a demo. It was kind of hard to picture a way to demo it, given that you can't really see it in action. Any suggestions welcome.

Re: Google Alerts - you're right... to a certain extent. Here, you can mash up datasets, compile them, tweak them, THEN and only then compare them to parameters you set. Alerts++, then.

How about a screenshot of the alerts configuration page, and the screenshot of an alert, in your mail client?

A very large part of the work is configured by the user, and the "alerts configuration page" is not yet functional.

Here is a screenshot of the alerts I received this morning: http://imgur.com/vG0PqDf

The alert was set for London Euston area.

I will add an issue to the repo because, as you see, the styling is not very pretty - and the wording is far from eloquent!

Posted the link to /r/Feminism. Got banned. http://imgur.com/7d4k0DV

Couldn't write the whole name, as the headline is limited to 80 chars. Sorry.

Ah okay, thanks. I seriously hope mods will close that crap PR.

I could write some pretty ugly things, but the problem is that I'd likely end up in jail for saying how I really feel :D

Haha! It's a bit the same for me, my Facebook post is going a wee bit crazy right now.