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Decently high. Exercise 5x/week (3x weights, 2x cardio). I'm on my feet walking a solid 5 hours per day. Then whatever I'm doing around the house, I do a lot of DIY.

This is very aesthetically pleasing. Good job! The tool you picked for visualization was interesting though. Given that your PhD was in computer science, I assumed you would use either R or Python. And just for ease of use, power BI or tableau would be the popular choices to use as well. I’m curious to know why you picked adobe illustrator. I haven’t used it before but I assume it’s a design tool like photoshop? Is it better than BI products like tableau in some way..? And did you use it a lot in your PHD program (which again would be a big surprise for me if you did)

What does physical activity look like in your life?

Thanks! And not that long. Maybe 30 seconds after I spent a period working on one thing.

How much time was spent tracking this is data? 😉

Congrats on the PhD!

According to your site you read at a pace of 81 pages an hour... that's actually absurd, are you actually reading everything or skipping a ton of pages?

In physics, sometimes a person who makes an accidental discovery gets a Nobel but the person who came up with the theory before the accident doesn't.

So gaining AWS CDK as a skill is still a work-in-progress for me. I use the documentation a lot, along with relying on my former AWS experience to know what I need. If it’s interesting to you, I wrote a blog post on How I Learned AWS which shares my experience with AWS, but not necessarily the CDK.

We use Python and TypeScript already on our team, so changing over to using CDK instead of Terraform was a matter of consolidating our tech stack to have one fewer language to stay up-to-date on.

Ah ok I understand! Thank you for the reply.

Then perhaps looking at the data would help us to better understand that problem

What's the most books your were reading simultaneously? Seems like several given the overlaps in the visualization. And how many of these were re-reads of something you had read before?

Anyway, this is a lovely and artistic way to display this information.

the problem is that russia has used the strategy of replacing local ethnicities with ethnic russians for decades in order to validate their claims

At first, I thought the long Patternist series started out as general fiction and then became science fiction by the end. The gradients look pretty and I imagine OP tried solid colors, but found things to look too chunky.

A fantastic way to illustrate books being read and for how long

Fair, I probably don't need so many explanations. Criticism taken on board!

Yeah the link is broken, I had to google it.

The age estimates are based on having found a correlation between parental age and different types of mutation. The different "letters" of DNA are chemically different and the various kinds of single-letter swap mutations happen at different rates. They found by looking at present-day babies that babies with old mothers tend, on average, to have different kinds of new mutations to babies with old fathers. They then extrapolated this idea to the database of historical mutations.

How many thousands of years ago each mutation happened was estimated by a different team in a previous paper, also using statistical methods. I don't know the details of that part but I'm guessing if a gene variant is super common and widespread, it's probably old.

This all produces estimated averages for each era - they know they can't actually put an exact age and date on any one mutation, but they don't have to to get a rough average over thousands of mutations for each millennium.

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I kept a log in almost real-time (e.g., after a meeting or a stint of work, I'd enter in the time).

I agree that my conclusion that working from home was more productive is not as strong as it should be. Because I was timing myself, I tried as hard as I could to stay focused while the stopwatch was running. So aside from meetings and teaching, I don't think my productivity varied minute by minute between WFH and office.

If I had a better way of measuring productivity, then I'd use that. For what it's worth, most of my writing time was at home.

While I agree with all of that, some of these race based statistics are super weird (not exactly OP). Also, Hispanic is not a race and for a society that (understandably) pays so much attention to race (and has a big hispanic population) you should have figured out a better way to incorporate hispanic people and their issues to your analyses.

No, and people in the Crimea still prefer to be part of Russia. They always have! They were just stuck in the Ukraine because when they tried to separate, peacefully, from the Soviet Union (as did the Ukraine itself), then join Russia, the Ukraine threatened to roll in tanks.

Not a dig at all, I myself am a little surprised. I did my PhD in France where PhD in every field (to my knowledge) are funded for three years max. You do have a possibility of adding an extra year, but you have to apply for that and explain to your doctoral school why you aren't going to finish in time.

PhDs in France are more like jobs where you are expected to show up with most of the skills already.

way too many words for a viz.

edit: this is a viz. not your thesis haha but anyhow, great work and gratz

What's "genre fiction"? Wouldn't all fiction be in some sort of specific genre?

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