Tanya Shapiro

@tanyashapiro.bsky.social

Solopreneur @ IndieVisual Data geek who loves problem solving Rambles about fitness & random stuff too https://indievisual.tech

In Boogie Wonderland with my Shining Star. We took the cats (aka my parents) to Earth, Wind & Fire last night. Experiencing them live - 10/10 🔥 Watching dad get down to “Let’s Groove” - 18/10 🕺🏻

Me and my better half, KristenEarth, Wind & Fire on stage

Work calls during FIFA games are just rude. LIKE HOW IS SWITZERLAND SUPPOSED TO WIN IF IM NOT COACHING THEM FROM THE COMFORT OF MY COUCH Embolo pull thru for us baby, Hopp Schwiiz 🇨🇭⚽️

when WebMD came out, patients started self diagnosing before walking into doctors offices. with GPTs, clients are now writing code before developers can even define the biz problem. this will sound odd - but we need to become more problem-oriented. folks are putting the AI cart before the horse.

Today, for Day 8 Circular of #30DayChartChallenge, I'm reflecting on my data viz glow-up journey. A few years ago I experimented with a global choropleth map encircled by a radial bar chart (ggplot2). Now I'm recycling this idea for an interactive data viz to visualize The Global Human Day (D3).

You ever look at a random font in the wild or on your feed and go “yep that’s definitely Space Grotesk [or insert font name here].” *chest swells with pride* Or is this just a weird designer thing? 😬 Yeah probably a weird designer thing…

Today we... - Created an Azure acct & spun up a SQL server - Dropped, recreated, & re-seeded tables 10x because of data type issues - Hooked it up to a live Nuxt app - Got 500 errors on the live site - Yelled at Firewall settings for 30 min (it was a cache prblm) - GOT IT WORKING ON A LIVE SITE