I Guess This Is A Thing? Ok.

The Tetons and Jackson Lake at Twilight © Dan Donnarumma http://dandonnarumma.tumblr.com IG: @dandonnarumma

Powerful coverage coming from Photographer John Moore covering the Ebola epidemic in Liberia which has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries and has overwhelmed the Liberian health system.

Top: MONROVIA, LIBERIA - AUGUST 14: A burial team from the Liberian health department sprays disinfectant over the body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on August 14, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Teams are picking up bodies from all over the capital of Monrovia, where the spread of the Ebola virus has been called catastrophic.

Middle:MONROVIA, LIBERIA - AUGUST 14: A man lies in a newly-opened Ebola isolation center set up by the Liberian health ministry in a closed school on August 14, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being sent to such centers in the capital Monrovia where the spread of the highly contagious and deadly Ebola virus has been called catastrophic.

Bottom:MONROVIA, LIBERIA - AUGUST 14: A relative weeps as a health department burial team prepares to enter the home of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on August 14, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.

O intrebare...

Ai recomandări de podcast-uri românești (nu doar știri)? Ceva de genul radioambulante.org, dar în limba română?

Tumblr Web Data Connector

A colleague of mine was recently running a session on Google Analytics and showed how to use blending with an Excel spreadsheet to demonstrate the impact that certain blog posts had on page views. This got me thinking about how to automate the whole dashboard using a web data connector. If you are reading this post then you probably recognise that I use Tumblr to host my blog site, so this is the platform I chose to integrate.

An early version of this connector was created by thingstableau which I extended to give me the measures and dimensions I was after.

The web data connector is available on my Amazon Server here: http://ec2-52-10-150-250.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/tumblrsearch/tumblrwebconnect.html, and the code is on github here.

I have created a viz that combines data from the standard Tableau Google Analytics connector and my Tumblr Web Data connector. Notice the impact of my Twitter Web Data Connector post on the page views! Click on image to open the viz on Tableau Public.

Meet the one-armed, durian-growing musician of Vietnam.

Photographs by Calvin Godfrey

Pasajul Macca - Vilacrosse, Bucureşti | Macca - Villacrosse Passage, Bucharest

Wow.

Huanglong Valley, Sichuan | China (by Nasty Bad Duck)