C Kittrell

Supporting the Data Driven Lifestyle

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I live alone in a small apartment with four forks and an indoor plant that is slowly losing its will to survive.

I had no practical business inside a Costco on a Saturday afternoon.

Yet feeling the quiet, hollow ache of a weekend with nowhere to go, I drifted through the sliding doors, pushing an oversized orange cart that felt as empty as my social calendar.

Surrounded by suburban families loading thirty-pound briskets into carts, I felt like a stray dog at a banquet.

Then, near the end of aisle 12, I smelled sizzling butter.
An elderly woman with soft silver curls under a hairnet stood behind a small electric griddle, using tongs to turn tiny squares of grilled sourdough with sharp cheddar.

I hovered three paces away, checking my phone to appear busy. I didn't want to look desperate for a free morsel.

She caught my eye through the steam. She saw my nearly empty cart.

"Get on over here, sweetheart,"
she called out, her voice like warm honey.

"Oh, just one is great, thank you,"
I mumbled, stepping forward and reaching for a paper cup.

She clicked her red plastic tongs, plucked two cups from the tray, and dropped them straight into my palm.

"Take two, honey,"
she commanded gently.

"You're tall and you look like a stiff breeze would push you clear across the county. When's the last time you had a hot lunch?"

"A couple days,"
I admitted, looking down.

She looked at me over her wire spectacles with infinite, ancient tenderness.

"Costco has fifty billion dollars, baby. They won't miss a square of cheese. Eat up, and remember someone was glad to see you today."

I stood beside a display of industrial snowplows, chewing that warm, buttery crust, fighting back a lump in my throat.

In thirty seconds, an eighty-year-old stranger with a plastic spatula had fed more than my stomach; she reminded a lonely guy that his existence wasn't an inconvenience to the world.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.

My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv

And some utterly damning charts.

1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@midjourney_ai AI’s interpretation of @DCOfficial Batman & Joker enjoying a beer together.

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

I asked @midjourney_ai to imagine the God of @HoustonTX

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

I asked @midjourney_ai to imagine the God of the @StarTrek Borg.

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@_ForeverL0VE It tastes like spaghetti with sugar.

[Ujaval Gandhi @spatialthoughts]

Built a script today to create a building density map for anywhere in the world using Google #EarthEngine and the @Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints dataset from the GEE Community Catalog. Try out the script on your own region of interest https://t.co/NBHThWsBLO

[Tableau Public @tableaupublic]

This #VizOfTheDay by Alexander Philipeit tracks the exact position of the sun throughout the day and across different seasons. Pro tip: You can view the solar position by various locations around the world. https://t.co/rZhaUTSrHq

[SM0R3S @SM0R3S]

@KHOU @abc13houston @KPRC2 @FOX26Houston @NBCNews @ABC @CBSNews @CNN @AP y’all did need to report to the public about these scam signs
https://t.co/y2rqlxi7nJ

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@RobertJanezic @fresh_gb Can you export twb files or is there a way to convert to them from figma?

[Business Science @bizScienc]

Did you know that you can make Excel files automatically from R?

Well you can with this awesome R package called openxlsx. I wrote a tutorial to help you!

Article: https://t.co/4QKhS5udkJ

#rstats

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@flerlagekr @tableau More Flerlage madness?! Cool!

[Matt Dancho (Business Science) @mdancho84]

R is getting better in Production!! I've just added to my cheat sheet:

✅ Production: plumber, targets, renv
✅ EDA: DataExplorer, skimr, correlationfunnel
✅ ML & DL: Torch for R, mlverse

Get the updated R cheat sheet here: https://t.co/qD1DYiSmmY

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@craigbloodworth That’s why you wear N95s on planes ✈️. Not because they told you wear a mask, but to protect yourself and your friends & family.

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@AeromexicoUSA Hey, did everyone call in sick today in Tuxtla? There is a huge line and no employees to be seen. Two hours to boarding too.

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@pradeep_zen @acotgreave @LisaTrescott @SParsonsDataViz Superior class design all around. You are in the top 1% of all Tableau designers. @pradeep_zen. Go spend your prize money on a stiff drink tonight and tomorrow continue to dominate the field. Any company in the world will hire you in a heartbeat now.

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

Welp, not eating there anymore. #Popeyes

[Washingtonian Problems @WashProbs]

DC rats are wild! 😳🤭😷

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@houmayor Can you please send someone to clean this up? If NYC can do it with their subways in 80’s, you can do it in 2021. It has been over a year now.

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@geoffjentry It’s because they have become used to in-person communication where if you start talking to the other person & they aren’t really listening to you - you have to repeat yourself. Acknowledging the “hi” means they know you are fully listening.

[C Kittrell @mardidavril]

@aabattani Only cities? There are plenty of beautiful natural spots too.