Publications by Louise E. Sinks
30 Day Chart Challenge- Flora and Fauna
It is Day 3 of the #30DayChartChallenge. More info can be found at the challenge’s Github page. Today’s theme is flora and fauna. I found a trove of fascinating data at Global Assessment of Reptile Distributions. I chose the dataset on body size/ mass from the paper: “Different solutions lead to similar life history traits across the great di...
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30 Day Chart Challenge -Arlington Parks
When I looked at Twitter this morning, my feed was filled with amazing charts. Apparently, April is month for the #30DayChartChallenge. More info can be found at the challenge’s Github page. Each day, the challenge specifies a type of chart, but not a dataset. Today’s challenge is to create a waffle chart. I’d never heard of a waffle chart, b...
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Self-Guided Learning through a Wordle Guess Generator: Part 2
This is the current version of the word game guesser. I discussed how I used this project to hone my coding skills in the companion blog post to this one. I’m not going to walk through this in much detail, but I’m going to point out some of the major lessons I learned as I revised the code. Again, both the initial version and this version are o...
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Self-Guided Learning through a Wordle Guess Generator: Part 1
Self-Guided Learning: The Ever Evolving Wordle Guess Generator The best way to learn a programming language is to code. Obvious, but sometimes it can be daunting to start a project when you are a novice. Influenced by my time at a start-up, I’ve found the best approach is to create a minimum viable product. This is the smallest working part of th...
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