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Immigration dashboard

Amy Cavender

Amy Cavender

15 Jan 2026
An image of the world with continents shown in solid white against a blue background.
Photo by Hartono Creative Studio / Unsplash

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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Notability in full screen on an iPad with Craft in Slide Over

Projecting an iPad in class

Occasionally in class, I like to use the Notability app on my iPad as a whiteboard projected via AirPlay. It used to be that I could have Notability open on the left in split-screen mode and another app open on the right, and only Notability would project. That made it

By Amy Cavender 19 Feb 2026
AI for extracting data

AI for extracting data

There are times when using AI isn’t appropriate; for example, I would never want it to write material for me. I’ll do my own thinking and writing, thanks. But there are things that it’s very good at — things that I could do myself, but that don’t

By Amy Cavender 18 Feb 2026
Screen shot of the code editor in Google Apps Script

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

By Amy Cavender 22 Nov 2024
Woman sitting at a computer working on a spreadsheet

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

By Amy Cavender 14 Nov 2024
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