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Site Updates

03 Dec 2020

Here’s a list of the most recent updates to the site!

• Completely overhauled the site’s css based around the responsive top navigation bar, with the classic hamburger drop down mobile menu - thank you to Kevin Powell for the easy to follow tutorial!
• Reformatted how tables are displayed! In an upcoming post, I work with long and kind of unweildy data summaries and I want a clean way of displaying that for both desktop and mobile users. Using this as my jumping off point, I made the tables easier to view on a mobile device (rows transform into “cards”). By default, only the headers, 2 rows of data, and a link to the full table are displayed to avoid content disruption.
  If you want to see the change happen live and you’re on the desktop site, try resizing the window under 1000px

See full table

• Created content pages so when you do access the linked full table, or a plot , the css formatting makes the table easier to read, in both mobile and desktop view
• Changed graphics from .png format to .svg and create multiple @media inquiries in css to determine picture position / scaling for different screen sizes
  Note - this only applies to my most recent posts, as I have not yet revisited the graphs generated in Octave from Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning course
• Now assets/ holds ~all~ site assets, including css code, images, html tables, and (now) fonts! Within assets/ items are organized on a media type level first, then further divide into specific posts. This might change in the future when the media I use gets significantly more complicated

Upcoming Changes

• Create site logo, to be displayed alongside navigation bar
• Update css to shrink top bar on horizontal mobile displays
• Add alt-text and titles to all images
• Add rounded edges to tables, to match other site formatting

Now that I’m satisfied with the site changes (…for now…) I’m going to replace my web dev hat with my data analyst one. My next post in the Iowa housing dataset involes both data cleaning and feature engineering. It’s been a long time coming, and I’m excited to share what I’ve been up to!

Until next time, 祝好！