Here are a few brief reviews of some of the things I have been watching and reading lately. Movies/TV series A Complete Unknown (2024): A somewhat conventional and great movie about Bob Dylan (i.e., much better than movies like I’m Not There). Timothée Chalamet’s performance as Bob Dylan is great and deserved an Oscar (much […]
Author: Erik Gahner Larsen
Reaching 2000 Elo in bullet chess
I decided to create a Chess.com account to, you guessed it, play some chess. Specifically, I would like to play chess with people I know in person. While I now play online chess with some colleagues, I could not resist playing some rated bullet chess against anybody that would be up for it, and it […]
Er livskvaliteten bedst på landet eller i byen?
Hos DR kan man i en artikel læse, at danskernes livskvalitet blandt andet hænger sammen med lokalområdet og det gode naboskab. Artiklen bygger på en undersøgelse af Realdania kaldet Vores Livskvalitet. Jeg fandt artiklen og undersøgelsen interessant, da det bliver beskrevet, at det er kommuner som Langeland, der “løber med placeringen i toppen, når det […]
The visualisation of opinion polls, ranked
In a blog post at Datawrapper, Vivien Serve goes through all the entries included in their Data Vis Dispatch throughout 2024. The year had several significant elections, leading to a series of visualisations related to elections, including the visualisation of opinion polls. I went through all of them and in this post I will focus […]
Cleaning up my Twitter #2
This is the follow-up post to my first post where I did some housecleaning on Twitter. This will be my final post where I clean up my Twitter. Not because I am done (or anywhere near being done), but because Twitter is not making it easy to remove retweets from the past. I guess this […]