Dennis Kao

Arrrrr.... Happy belated #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay, which was this past Friday... ☠️

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Congrats!

Doing what? 😅

Love It, Loathe It, and Lift It: The Missing Conversation on AI I’ve sat through perhaps too many conversations on AI this month. Whether in-person (hi Outlier), online (oh, the discourse), or anywhere else I happened to be, GenAI is specifically on the m…

I really try not to write about AI. Too many conversations forced my hand (again)...

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You have a great set of…. labels…🤭

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Montreal allows its seniors to travel for free, via any mode (bus, metro, river taxi, paratransit, etc.) in the central part of the city (Zone A)...
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Oh yeah... my R is a bit rusty, but looking forward to it!!

Me too!!!

Happy #AAPIHeritageMonth & #AsianHeritageMonth!

Here's my viz for this week's #MakeoverMonday & #APITug project, highlighting the prevalence of Asian restaurants and cuisine in the US.

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For more information, check out the Toronto Blues Society's festival guide: torontobluessociety.com/blues-festiv...

As we near summer, one of the things I always look forward to are the music festivals! So I've updated my viz "Blues and Jazz Festivals of Canada", showcasing almost 40 festivals across the country...

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Happy Festival-ing!!!! 🎶 🎺 🍻

Thanks Brittany! Actually your approach is more impressive... I thought it would be easier (& efficient). So most days, I just duplicated the dashboard, swapped the chart & revised the title/description.

#30DayChartChallenge 2025... it's a wrap!

30 days... 30 visualizations... At some point, I hope to share some of my reflections... but for now, thank you for all your support! 🙏

Congrats to all of the participants! It was great seeing all of your work!

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This is my first election as a Canadian citizen... Are there rules about taking down signs after the election? Barbara Bal signs everywhere...

#30DayChartChallenge Day 30 National Geographic

I love NG... and re: maps, NG is the gold standard! I decided to redo my "Penguins of Antarctica" viz/map and hope I do NG justice...

Feedback always appreciated!

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Nice!

#30DayChartChallenge Day 29 Extraterrestrial

Had a bit of fun with this one... here's my "crop circle" chart highlighting some findings from the Sky Canada Report... 🛸

Let me know what you think! 🙏

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Thanks Brittany! Such a great little technique & I really love how compact the bar chart is.

I thought the vertical labeling was a nice touch... it might be handy or helpful especially if someone starts adding a 3rd or even a 4th bar to the mix... 😉

No idea.😅 It could be a function of greater awareness, improved diagnosis, population growth, changes in school inclusion policies, etc.

Interestingly, if you look at all special education enrollment, about 50% remain unidentified for a specific exceptionality... so the # might be higher

Comparison Columns in Tableau — Shift and Overlap Bars with One Easy Calc Learn how to create overlapped bars for categorical and time series data in Tableau

Inspiration came from @brrosenau.bsky.social and her overlapping comparison bars: brittanyrosenau.medium.com/comparison-c...

Can't believe it's almost over... #30DayChartChallenge Day 28 Inclusion

The theme made me think of the special education field... so here's my viz, highlighting the increase in autistic students enrolled in Ontario schools.

Feedback always appreciated!

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TRANSLATING MUSIC INTO DATA In 2019, the 'Firebird Suite' visualization was created for IronViz, blending music and data through animation and instrument visualization.

Inspired and informed by Dinushki De Livera's blog: www.herdata.net/post/transla...

#30DayChartChallenge Day 27 Noise

Naturally, I thought of one of my favorite noise rock bands in the 80s & 90s, The Jesus and Mary Chain...

... and decided to visualize the MIDI data of their song, Head On. 🤘

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Thanks Kit! I generally use Tableau to do my data visualizations...

You're right... The survey asks about their level (scale of 0-10) of meaning or purpose in life. But in my mind, there might be some overlap, so I was just using it as a proxy for "boredom." I also considered using "loneliness"...

A tile world map AND pie charts... very risky... 😅

#30DayChartChallenge Day 26 Monochrome

Really leaned into today's theme... In 2024, 20% of Canadians expressed a lack of purpose or meaning in life (or in other words, were "bored"). So here's a bar chart...

Feedback always appreciated!

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Thanks Morgan! Great catch! I forgot to fix the range across the three groups... They probably should be... they are now.

#30DayChartChallenge Day 25 Risk

Each year, an average of 4,000 Canadians die by suicide... and the risk for men is about 3 times higher than women.

Help is available... Speak with someone today! #StarttheConversation #EndTheStigma

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#30DayChartChallenge Day 24 World Health Organization

Here's my viz, looking at unmet medical care needs among seniors in the European Union. I went with a sort-of small multiples/heat map hybrid...

Let me know if it works... feedback always appreciated!🙏

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