Author Archives: John

About John

Interested in how information intersects daily life, technology, and art. Digital Marketing - marketing ROI in healthcare Collaboration - working in social and collaborative media. Biomedical Informaticist - focusing on patient/patient, patient/provider communication.

Reading Tufte

Posted on July 31, 2020 by John

Finished up the first three volumes from Edward Tufte on data information and visualization. While I read a bit a few years ago, and follow data viz on Twitter and the web, it was good to sit down and go … Continue reading →

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SQL Fundamentals

Posted on April 17, 2020 by John

Like last week’s effort with Regular Expressions, I’ve been piecing together SQL queries for some time now and decided to work through a lite tutorial. I noticed the website with the Regular Expressions tutorial also offered SQL; so I jumped … Continue reading →

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Regular Expressions

Posted on April 8, 2020 by John

To clean up data for analysis, I’ve had to dip my toes into regular expressions. For example, writing a line of instructions that can separate first and last names and removing middle ones from a list of people. To do … Continue reading →

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Cartogram of Oregon Counties

Posted on September 21, 2019 by John

The state of Oregon’s Open Data Portal provides access and assistance to a whole number of datasets and charts. I’ve been interested in looking at the similarities and differences between counties and locations (mostly in healthcare). I’ve done a few … Continue reading →

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Understanding Other People

Posted on March 4, 2019 by John

When realities collide. Understand the Other communities. Links and notes on current political spheres. Continue reading →

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