What is a Facebook Friend?

Posted by Neal in Academic on May 15, 2012

I am personally struggling with my definition of “friend” on facebook. There are a few ways of handling friends on facebook:

  1. I want to meet them
  2. I knew them
  3. I know them
  4. I know them well
Which do you use?

Practice Rows for Arctic Row

Posted by Neal in Adventure on May 6, 2012

With only 2 months until we leave for Arctic Row, we’ve increase our training routine.

Last weekend our crew rowed 60-miles across the width of Lake Michigan. Here’s a video about that row 20 hours and 59 minute row:

This weekend I rowed from San Francisco to Oakland and back. Here’s a map of that 16 mile row:


View Jack London Row in a larger map

Arctic Row on WGN Chicago News

Posted by Neal in Adventure on May 1, 2012

Meeting Roz Savage

Posted by Neal in Adventure on April 21, 2012

I met the most prominent rower in the world today, Roz Savage. She’s the only woman to row across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, all solo. She wrote a book about her Atlantic Crossing. She was in San Francisco this week to prepare her boat to row across the Atlantic. She was super kind, gave me a bunch of tips and wished Arctic Row well. I wished her well also, her rowing expedition leaves in a couple days.

Roz Savage and Neal Mueller

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Arctic Row Mentioned In New York Times Today

Posted by Neal in Adventure on March 12, 2012

Link to article about Arctic Row’s scientific work with University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Making the Impossible Possible

Posted by Neal in Project Graph on February 14, 2012

Graph inspired by 14 Ways an Economist Says I Love You.

About Project Graph: At Wharton we’re taught that everything can be graphed. This is my attempt to graph my goings-on.

The World Is Coming To Our House

Posted by Neal in Project Graph on January 4, 2012

Our next house party is this Saturday. Eventbrite allowed me to plot the location of the tickets buyers on a map. Based on purchased tickets, people from across the world are coming over to our house for a drink.

 

Visualizing Asian Energy Consumption

Posted by Neal in Project Graph on December 28, 2011

Source: U.S. EIA via Tech Review.

How to make a ginger bread house

Posted by Neal in Creative on December 20, 2011

From 2008.

The Charts That Changed the World [via HBR]

Posted by Neal in Project Graph on December 12, 2011

Harvard Business Review has an excellent article on graphs this month (December 2011). Here’s a picture of the article I took in Los Angeles airport while on a trip for ArcticRow to meet Scott Mortensen. And here’s a PDF I found via google in the HBR Archives: Visual Statement.

 
About Project Graph: At Wharton we’re taught that everything can be graphed. This is my attempt to graph my goings-on.