Jose Maria Echave Sanz

The economics of mobility [Datata #5]

Owning a car is often perceived as something that gives you freedom, but is that true? How does freedom look like for you?

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Precious attention, interrupted [Datata #4]

Technology has a profound impact to our mental wellbeing, creativity and work. I want to show how serious of a problem this is. With data in hand, as always.

Why do we hide from our emotions?

We all struggle with our emotions sometimes. In an attempt to know more about how emotions work, I attended the course Mood mastery by clinical psychologist and author Nick Wignall. Here is some of the ideas that resonated most with me.

Remote work ≠ Work from home

Remote work is not the same as working from home, if the environment has changed, why our way of working has stayed practically the same?

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Helsinki, the happy city? [Datata #3]

I think so, Helsinki is such a complete city. Explore my analysis of Helsinki and learn some basic about urban planning and what makes Helsinki special.

Diigo to evernote package

R package to import Diigo highlights (read later/highlighting app) into Evernote (note taking app)

QlikviewR package

R package created to read qvd data from qlikview.

#Tidytuesday visualization challenge

I sent multiple entries to the weekly visualization challenge, using ggplot2 and R.

Reproducible reports workshop

Workshop for the shortcut, explaining why reproducible reports are useful for companies and teaching them how to use Rmarkdown.

Public transport webapp

Webapp developed with Shiny to show the next stops and routes go for a given stop in Helsinki area

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Datata #2: Don't chicken out

The absurdity we have reached where we trade our time for commodity in the expense of money and plastic waste, taking chickens as an example, and showing graphs and data.

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Datata #1: Falling in love

Life is inherently chaotic, and thus we spend lot of time structuring it, organizing it and planning. But what are we missing out on if we don't embrace the randomness of our lives? In my case that randomness led to me discovering a new music band that I fell in

The knowledge factory: Lean meets personal knowledge management

We all consume information and somehow store it (bookmarks, screenshots, save a pdf, etc.) yet we forget what we consume or never use it again. To tackle this problem I decided to enroll in Building a second brain course by Tiago Forte. Even though I had been using a part

Helsinki city bikes: a summer love story

Although a bit reluctant first about availability and number of stations, this summer I decided to purchase a seasonal pass (costs 30 €) of Helsinki City bikes. As I have been living in a town outside Helsinki, the bikes have proved to be a great means of transportation for short distances

12 Months of restaurants

One of my big passions is food, I love trying new restaurants and new dishes. Since I have been for some time already recording all my expenses in an app on my phone, it is quite easy to take the list of the expenses for the category restaurants. This provides

Biking in snow

InspirationIt all started last year when I decided to purchase a garmin activity tracker. The garmin Vivosport. Main goal was just to track the quality of my sleep and to see I am moving enough. Given I use my dear bycicle as means of transportation to go to work I

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Visualizing travels

Living away from your hometown implies being on the move and travelling back and forth. In this personal data project, I decided to visualize the travels I have done in 2019 so far (until September) completely in R, making a code that can be reused, just by putting more travels