Stephen Redmond

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Mastering QlikView

Everything Qlik, from dimensional data modeling and creating best-practice ETL to visualization best practices.

2014

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Dubliners, by James Joyce. A summary of Chapter 16, “Shadows in Twilight”

Brendan O’Malley, a middle-aged librarian finds himself walking the streets of Dublin at dusk, reflecting on his life’s unfulfilled…

Mar 19

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The Playfair Ploy: Pie Charts, Heretical Ideas, and the Secret Manipulation of Freemasons to…

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Mar 17, 2023

The Playfair Ploy: Pie Charts, Heretical Ideas, and the Secret Manipulation of Freemasons to Aggravate Statisticians

Mar 17, 2023

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Medium may need to heed the history of Blackberry on their approach to mobile

I am not the most prolific author on Medium. I have largely ceased writing on the platform since March because I can no longer use my…

Aug 11, 2022

Medium may need to heed the history of Blackberry on their approach to mobile

Aug 11, 2022

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Into the Metaverse: Let’s get over the anti-3D arguments in data viz

There is a school of thought in the Data Viz community that 3D data visualizations are to be avoided at all costs! (Often from similar…

Mar 22, 2022

Into the Metaverse: Let’s get over the anti-3D arguments in data viz

Mar 22, 2022

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How good are the oil companies at greenwashing?

An academic study was published this week that stated what the dogs in the street probably know — there is a big gap between the clean…

Feb 19, 2022

How good are the oil companies at greenwashing?

Feb 19, 2022

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Electric Vehicle (EV) Myths

There are so many dumb “fake news” stories about electric vehicles. Every time I see a thread on Twitter about EVs, there is always a large…

Feb 4, 2022

Feb 4, 2022

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Taking the battery to France

In a previous post, I described the less-than-epic journey around Ireland with our new electric car — the Kia eNiro. That turned out to be…

Nov 19, 2021

Nov 19, 2021

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Are the German car makers ready for the Chinese rEVolution?

It looked like a great initiative by the German Bundestag in June 2021. They introduced ammendments to the Energy Industry Act ( EnWG ) and…

Sep 12, 2021

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A review of Rethinking Humanity

How existing technologies may solve climate change and lead to a new age of freedom

Sep 1, 2021

Graph from a BloombergNEF report (Electric Vehicle Outlook 2021) on pace of electric and other car sales up to 2040

Sep 1, 2021

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Round Ireland with a battery

The British comedian Tony Hawkes once wrote a very entertaining book about hitch-hiking around Ireland with a portable fridge. I would…

Aug 16, 2021

Aug 16, 2021