Immigration dashboard
I had some fun today throwing together a Tableau dashboard showing travel and immigration visa status by country for those wishing to come to the United States.
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Custom functions for preparing data
Last week, I explained how I used a combination of macros in Google Sheets to clean up class lists for a project I’m working on. With that part of the project complete, the next step was to combine the individual class lists into one consolidated list that I could
Macros for data cleaning
Students often ask me, “What can I do with a degree in Political Science?” There are many things, of course, but one of the best ways to give students ideas about what they might do with a Political Science degree is to let them know what former students are currently
A Shortcut for creating random groups
Just before the academic year began in late August, I found myself looking through the Shortcuts application to see whether I had any shortcuts I needed to update for the new term. I found that I was missing one: a shortcut for creating random groups of students for small group
Python scripts for duplicating files and folders
Earlier this summer, I spent some time creating Python scripts to copy files and folders. Why do that? For me, the most common use case for copying files is that I want to have a marking sheet for each student. The starting point (the blank sheet) is the same for