Okay, so I was messing around with some data visualization stuff today, and I decided to focus on “alexis t. realmuto”. Sounds kinda random, I know, but hear me out.
First, I gathered all the data I could find. I mean, I literally just Googled the name and started digging through whatever popped up. It was a total mixed bag – news articles, stats pages, you name it.
Data Wrangling Time
Then came the fun part (well, fun for me, anyway). I needed to clean up this mess of information. I used some basic spreadsheet software to organize everything. I:
- Created different columns for different types of data – like, one for dates, one for mentions, one for sources, etc.
- Sorted through everything, throwing out anything that seemed irrelevant or unreliable. This took a while, honestly.
- Tried to standardize the format of the dates and stuff, to make it all consistent.
After that, I wanted to see if there were any trends or patterns. I made some simple charts and graphs. Nothing fancy, just basic stuff to get a visual sense of the data. I played around with different chart types – line graphs, bar charts, even a pie chart at one point.
It’s still a work in progress, but I started to see some interesting things. For example, there were definitely some spikes in mentions around certain dates, which probably corresponded to news events or something. I need to dig into that more.
Overall, it was a pretty cool little experiment. It’s amazing what you can find when you just start digging into data, even for something as seemingly random as “alexis t. realmuto”. I might keep messing with this and see what else I can uncover. I learned some detail things.
