Matthias Shapiro

I need fewer hobbies

  • The last few months I've indulged in a deep dive in my own genetic data, provided to me by 23AndMe. Starting from basically no knowledge about biology or genetics, I've learned a huge amount about my genome and about genetics in general.

  • A visualization of the Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) books and which characters drive the story.

  • OK, Cory Doctorow, let's see if this works. I've recently written a chapter on storytelling and information visualization for O'Reilly media to publish in the book Beautiful Visualization. And you can read it for free.

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Disney Shorts 1931

Posted on January 15, 2019 by matthiasshapiro
Birthday Party January 7, 1931 available in Mickey Mouse in Black and White Minnie surprises Mickey for his

Disney Shorts 1930

Posted on January 14, 2019 by matthiasshapiro
Summer January 16, 1930 available in More Silly Symphonies This is a fine short with no narrative whatsoever. It is

Disney Shorts of 1929

Posted on January 5, 2019 by matthiasshapiro
The Barn Dance March 14, 1929 available in Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume 2 Mickey and Peg Leg Pete

Disney Shorts of 1928

Posted on January 2, 2019 by matthiasshapiro
Plane Crazy May 15, 1928 (silent test screening), available in the Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey Mouse In Black and

Adding Looney Tunes Golden Collection To Plex

Posted on July 31, 2018 by matthiasshapiro
Download all code and documentation from github The Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a set of 6 DVD collections of

HUD Rental Data in UWP

Posted on February 8, 2018 by matthiasshapiro
I'm currently looking to sell a rental house and buy another rental house, so I went looking for a data-centric way to find

Loading CSV Files in UWP

Posted on January 31, 2018 by matthiasshapiro
Video summarizing this post: I've recently worked on a series of UWP apps that needed to load up a CSV file. I'm

Alexa Audio Skill in C# (.Net Core)

Posted on April 1, 2017 by matthiasshapiro
Fork the Alexa Audio Tutorial in C# I originally started working with Alexa Skills because I wanted to write an skill to

Tutorial: DynamoDB with C# in .NET Core

Posted on March 21, 2017 by matthiasshapiro
I've been playing around with Alexa apps in .NET Core and trying to pull together a good example of a .NET driven audio

Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – Deployment

Posted on February 10, 2017 by matthiasshapiro
Note: This is part of a series on writing Alexa Skills in C#, but the Skill setup information is universal & language