{"id":1562,"date":"2011-07-30T00:05:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T05:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2011-07-30T00:08:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T05:08:51","slug":"sorry-my-paper-on-data-visualization-is-late-i-was-at-a-pow-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/sorry-my-paper-on-data-visualization-is-late-i-was-at-a-pow-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry my paper on data visualization is late, I was at a pow-wow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Male<\/a>I was going to come back to the hotel after work and finish up my paper for the Western Users of SAS Software (WUSS) conference. This one is called Better-looking SAS for a Better Community. It was going to use the analyses I did of inequality in America and presented to urban Los Angeles middle school students this past year.<\/p>\n

However, another teacher asked me to do a presentation for his class, and he teaches in Missouri, in a school that is 95% African-American. The demographics being different, I thought a different presentation would be in order, so I am working on one called “A Study in Black and White”.<\/p>\n

So far, it’s coming out well.<\/p>\n

That was, until Erich, my former business partner, suggested I go to the pow-wow tonight. I weighed it – finish paper, go to pow-wow, Graph-N-Go , fry bread, SAS Enterprise Guide, Indian tacos, plots of predicted versus actual, fancy dancing.<\/p>\n

In the end, the pow-wow won out. The picture below is from what I thought was the coolest part which is the inter-tribal dance where everyone from all of the tribes comes out and dances, men, women, kids, shawl dancers, grass dancers, jingle dress dancers, traditional dancers and dancers I don’t know the name for.<\/p>\n

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My reasoning was, how many times in life will I get to go to a pow-wow? The last pow-wow I went to was probably 18 years ago. On the other hand the last SAS program I wrote was last night.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is my partner’s nephew, whose father used to be the tribal council chairman. When he’s not dancing at pow-wows he’s in law school. I suspect a few years from now federal cases on tribal sovereignty might be a bit more interesting.<\/p>\n

Did I learn more from the pow-wow than doing my paper? Surprisingly, yes. I learned that the inter-tribal dance is gorgeous. I learned that there are more things in life than writing one more paper . Since I could not get Internet access, Cinch didn’t work, Twitter didn’t work, Facebook didn’t work. I learned that sometimes it’s good to quit recording things and just witness them.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Indian tacos are not very much like Mexican tacos but they still taste delicious and that tripe soup looks just like menudo and there is no way in hell I am eating either one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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