This is the first of several posts covering the story of how I assemble and utilize data for creative projects. In this case, I’ll look at the spreadsheet where I store the data of prospective, in-progress, and on-submission stories and ideas.
Most of my professional content will be hosted on my GitHub portfolio but I thought my blog was as good a place as any to practice a bit of data storytelling!
Story Research Introduction: I Love Spreadsheets!
I aim to share a few data storytelling posts here in the future to explain some of the more complex spreadsheets I’ve created, but I want to introduce this career transition by sharing images of some of my earliest worldbuilding spreadsheets (dating from roughly 2005~2011). It’s from a project where people can enter dreams a la Paprika or Inception. I won’t be sharing more information than that, but if you’re like me, the data itself will pique your interest and inspire your imagination.
Read moreStory Data Story: Literary Magazine Rankings
This is the final placeholder post that may later be about the process/story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my creative projects—in this case, the spreadsheets where I rank literary magazines according to who they published, how often they publish award-winning work, and other information.
Read moreStory Data Story: Chocolate Cities
This is the final placeholder post that may later be about the process/story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my creative projects—in this case, the spreadsheets where I rank literary magazines according to who they published, how often they publish award-winning work, and other information.
Read moreStory Data Story: Floriography for Lotus/Thistle
This is a placeholder draft post that will later be about the process/story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my creative projects—in this case, the spreadsheet where I combined scientific data on the entire plant kingdom with the meanings given by several floriography (ie the language of flowers) books—with a bit of hanakotoba meanings mixed in.
Read moreStory Data Story: Agent Ranking & Query Response Tracking
This is a placeholder draft post that will later be about the process/story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my creative projects—in this case, the list of all agents I queried and their responses, response types, and so on. Fun fact: my first queried novel got over 50 rejections!
Read moreHow MENSA Improved my Mental Health
Last year, I joined MENSA.
As a joke, mostly.
But also because it was a childhood dream of the Maya who picked up that those in my intersecting social categories were often dehumanized, who realized that she was good at school, who yearned for meritocracy to be a real deciding factor in the world, and who believed that education was the path to a successful and prosperous future.
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