In Episode 20 of the Kenny Cool series, I give thanks to my Aunt Birdie who taught me a sure-fire hiccup cure. It has never failed me and now you can give her thanks the next time you have a case of the hiccups.
In Kenny Cool Episode #4, I discuss the various methods available for using the Data Blends Blog.
Preeclampsia (pre-e-CLAMP-si-a) is a condition unique to human pregnancy. It is diagnosed by the elevation of the expectant mother’s blood pressure usually after the 20th week of pregnancy. In this story, we used data collection and visualization to help our doctor make the right choices for my wife during our high-risk pregnancy.
This article is part 5 of the 3danim8 Blogging Experimental analysis, although I didn’t intend it to be. It just happened. A good life can be made a great life if you understand the role of creativity in your life. In this article, I have come full-circle in understanding something that has eluded me for my whole lifetime. This something is called Big Magic.
Today I got to experience pure chaos while on the road. This is the type of story that we all believe will not happen to us.
There is a great new RRP episode on the importance of sleep. I found it to be a outstanding resource and helped me understand many things about the critical need for sleep.
This is definitely one of my more obscure and somewhat creepy Tableau applications. I visualize the skin healing process after a skin cancer operation I had to remove a Basal Cell Carcinoma.
Update August, 2015 Google changed their minds and broke this technology. It is a shame. Click here to read about what they did to make this approach no longer work. You can still gain some insight to Rich’s podcasts by viewing my original article, but the easy navigation links are no longer valid. Sorry folks.…
Introduction This post is to encourage you to watch an amazing movie. The movie took over 4 years to make. It is 1 hour and 41 minutes long and worth every second of your time. Trust me. You will learn a lot. Many thanks to my friend Neil (Neil on Twitter)Â for sending me this information…
Update Two Years Later (Sept 6, 2016) This was the best performing article that I wrote as part of the 3danim8 blogging experiment. Now two years later, the content that I originally wrote is still valid. Rich is still, in my humble opinion, one of the best podcasters on planet earth. Rich is a national treasure…
Introduction It was about one year ago tonight when I discovered what maximum pain really  means.  It was Good Friday night in 2013 at about 1 am, and I was getting ready for bed and taking a natural break.  Suddenly and without warning, Mike Tyson, in the prime of his boxing career, entered my bathroom…
A couple of weeks ago, I started capturing Twitter data that had the hashtag #Plantpower in the tweet. I wrote about the motivation for this in another blog post. This information is stored in a database that is automatically updated over time. This post is intended to help people learn how to use Tableau dashboards…
Rich Roll (and his wife Julie Piatt) have been the best teachers I’ve had in a very long time.  Rich is amazing and continues to deliver incredible content to many people through his podcasts, Twitter activities, website and his book Finding Ultra.
The Term: The Cruise Effect. Definition: Gaining weight on a cruise ship is really easy. Losing that weight is not so easy. I would like to tell you about a two-month study that I just completed. The first month happened before I took a 5-day cruise from Charleston, S.C. to the Bahamas and back.
Introduction It was about 7 months into my wife’s last pregnancy when things started to get scary. This is the story from that time in August 2011.