Comedian does the data viz thing - and gets stuck in Columbus

I say this only once:  Andy Boyle is one of the funniest lecturers I've ever hade the pleasure to encounter. Just reading his tweets after the seminar had me in stitches.

This is the story: Andy misses his flight (he also misses his headphones, since he left them at OSU, but thats a different story) and ends up at a really, and I mean really, dodgy hotell for the night. And he tweets things like these:

This is the inside of the hotel shuttle. I don't even know how to respond anymore. pic.twitter.com/5rAldsTCTD

— Andy Boyle (@andymboyle) 11 april 2014

Waiting for my airport shuttle from this place. Half-assuming I'm just gunna get in the back of here. pic.twitter.com/QdFaL6gMd7

— Andy Boyle (@andymboyle) 11 april 2014

Now that's not the story here. Andy Boyle is a standup comedian, but he is also an web developer at the Chicago Tribune, and that's why he came to Columbus in the first place, to teach us ignorant journalists that programming can be helpful if you want to crowdsource, do cool graphics or just look good.

So he starts off by explaing the internet to us, the oblivious souls of Kipcamp, like this:

Internet is a bar.

Somewhere, where a lot of guys with neck beards sit, are the server rack.

Your drink is a webpage. So you go "Give me a high quality beer".

Bartender is a DNS, who provides you with that.

And just like getting a beer out of the fridge you get it from your IP.

The different ways you might experience a beer is like viewing a website in different browsers.

Then he goes on telling us how much cheaper everything is now, compared to what it used to be, when it comes to storage, servers and such. We also got great examples of how you could use simple spread sheet information to automatically create lists or even to generate articles from police reports