I’m from Melbourne, Australia and was recently in the United States. I definitely found American strangers far more likely to randomly struck up conversations with you in public spaces. I spent just over 5 months there between California and Colorado, and was constantly caught off guard by strangers trying to stop and talk to me - usually older adults.
Not wanting to stereotype too generally, but from talking to other Aussies about it we chalked it up to a higher level of self-confidence over there.
I know I definitely struggle to talk to strangers, though in part because you really just don’t know what you’re going to get sometimes! It was the part of travelling that I thoroughly enjoyed as a young 20-something. I was thrust into situations (hostels, bars, etc.) that forced me to overcome my shyness.
I have just completed a number of vegalite graphics for a University assignment focused on creating editorial data visualisations (due in a few days! https://crcorbett.github.io/FIT3179/)
As someone quite fresh to data analysis, I found Vega-Lite fun to work with. I have some experience with ‘Grammar of Graphics’ approaches, having taken a few classes focussed on R and Tidyverse.
The docs are comprehensive, but I found the example charts often too basic for the ideas I was trying to implement. This might be more reflective of my greenness in the area than any deficiency in the library.
I understand it’s relatively new to the scene so it’s not expected to have full functionality just yet. This assignment made me appreciate how simple ggplot() is, in particular when it comes to faceting graphics.
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