Whoa!

Apparently I got well ahead of myself, or as one commentator said, “Way out over your ski’s, Charlie.”

Not everyone is a Power BI aficionado, or even a spreadsheet addict. Several readers took me to task, for taking quite a lot for granted in the last two posts.  And I well appreciate that data and mathematics are dry subjects, even fearful subjects,  for many folk, But I also believe that our world is complex enough that every little bit helps in terms of understanding many situations, whether in business, medical issues, or just our daily lives.  

Good day to you all. This is post 5 for the new AstroVirtual Inc. blog.

Last week’s blogposts generated some response, more than I anticipated.   As in “Where did you get all of this COVID data?”, and “Why did you decide to collect it in the first place?”   Follow-up questions were “What did you find out?” and “What did you do then?”  A couple of important questions followed about the Geospatial Maps (the Choropleths).

Good day to you all. This is post #4 for the new AstroVirtual Inc. blog.

You’ve all seen the newspaper cartoons that say “find the 12 differences between these two pictures” where in one, the person is wearing a scarf, but not in the next, and her hat had a brim in one but not the other, and so on. The idea in such cartoons is that we as observers seldom notice the incidental or peripheral objects, by comparison with the main focus of the picture.

Good day to you all.  This is post #3 for the new AstroVirtual Inc. blog.

I’ve been in the Computer Graphics and Imaging business for virtually a lifetime. When I designed and built the HP 1300A in 1966, the first directed-beam graphics display commercially sold by any computer vendor, people had little idea what to do with it. I worked for Hewlett-Packard, which at the time only designed, built, and sold scientific instrumentation. HP was by far the leading scientific instrumentation company in the world then producing nearly half of the world’s electronic instrumentation. I worked in the Oscilloscope division, which was about one-twentieth of the company, in a market that Tektronix dominated.