I’m able to deliver lectures on data journalism at two different universities and at the Catalonian Statistics Institute.
I’m not very good at following online classes. I’m quite bad, in fact, as I had to unenroll from two. I failed to follow Alberto Cairo’s first edition of his data visualization class (and I’m currently failing to follow the 2nd edition) and I was also unable to follow a “Stats with R” online course. Moreover, I completely failed at Codeyear’s challenge, completing just 21% of the course. In my defense, I’ll say that the weird proxy settings at work makes the Codeacademy website almost impossible to use, but I remain committed to finalise that course, along with other two on Python and R, and I have enrolled again in Codeyear in 2013.
Against all odds, I can certainly drive a car, at least through the US West Coast.
Having a Kindle is great for my book and journalism reading, but it’s deadly to my magazine and comic book reading, as I can tell by the pile of paper waiting to be read.