Lon Riesberg

@lonriesberg

Avid learner. Cross-functional project lead. Data geek. Founder/curator of . Ex-NASA.

Boulder, CO
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Joined January 2009
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  1. Sep 23

    Great thread on startup funding.

    1/ My experience is that most pitches go sideways because the investor is lead to believe there is more maturity in a company than their is. And then they leave unsatisfied because there wasn't sufficient focus on the important metrics for the assumed stage.
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    Sep 18

    🆕 if you turn off timeline ranking in settings today, you’ll see all the tweets from people you follow in reverse chronological order…no “in case you missed it” or tweets the people you follow “liked”.

    5/ Meanwhile, today we updated the “Show the best Tweets first” setting. When off, you’ll only see Tweets from people you follow in reverse chronological order. Previously when turned off, you’d also see “In case you missed it” and recommended Tweets from people you don’t follow.
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    Sep 17

    Having the self-belief that you will be able to figure things out as you go along is critical to success at anything hard. Get started and trust yourself. No one has all the answers at the beginning.

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  4. Sep 3

    Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing via

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  5. Sep 2

    Yo-Yo Ma: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - don't miss the talking points between pieces!

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    Aug 29

    Our Data-Driven Storytelling book is free for the next two weeks online:

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    Aug 24

    Facts that may or may not be obvious: - Jupyter is a nod to 3 languages: Julia, Python, and R - the "gg" in ggplot stands for "Grammar of Graphics" - Pandas comes from "panel data" - naming things is hard, but once the names are out there people rarely think about them

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    Aug 19

    National geographic photo of the year!

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    Jul 31

    Just posted two new chapters for my book. 1. Visualizing associations among quantitative variables

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    Aug 16

    That's very clever 😂😂😂

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  11. Aug 15

    The Best Private Search Engines  -  Alternatives to Google

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    Aug 13

    My kind of pies

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    Aug 13

    Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt? | NASA

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    Aug 13

    OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks

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  15. Aug 8

    This is amazing - Stanford computer scientists develop a system to synthesize realistic sounds for computer animation -

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    Aug 5

    Step into the lab that's working on the future of flight—in mini form

    Inside NASA's Prototype Lab Where Model Planes Take Flight
    Walk into NASA Armstrong's Sub-scale Research Lab, where model airplanes are used to test cutting edge aeronautical ideas like crash-avoidance and more efficient rocket launches.
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    Jul 29

    Can’t... stop... watching

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    Jul 24

    NEW!! 🎉 Come read my interactive -driven story: Figures in the Sky ⭐ See how current & past cultures across the world have seen their myths in the stars. Shapes found everywhere, fascinating constellations & even stranger meanings. Enjoy! 😃

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  19. Jul 24

    The official live of is really rather fantastic. All the information you need, very easy to "watch" the stage progress, track riders etc.
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    Jul 20

    So here's my favourite little quirky thing in New York, which to me is a perfect embodiment of New York's attitude, and a direct result of New York's street grid, arguably two of the city's most famous aspects…

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