This is my first post on my new fake blog! How exciting!

I’m sure I’ll write a lot more interesting things in the future.

Oh, and here’s a great quote from this Wikipedia on salted duck eggs.

A salted duck egg is a Chinese preserved food product made by soaking duck eggs in brine, or packing each egg in damp, salted charcoal. In Asian supermarkets, these eggs are sometimes sold covered in a thick layer of salted charcoal paste. The eggs may also be sold with the salted paste removed, wrapped in plastic, and vacuum packed. From the salt curing process, the salted duck eggs have a briny aroma, a gelatin-like egg white and a firm-textured, round yolk that is bright orange-red in color.

Hi. I’m Frank Hangler, a data designer and developer living in Vancouver, Canada.

I am founder of Plot + Scatter, a data communication company specializing in custom-built web-based data visualizations.

In 2013-14, I studied at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, earning a Master’s of Science in the Social Science of the Internet (what a mouthful!). We studied the various social impacts of this relatively new technology — though really, we only scratched the surface. It was a fantastic year that grew my interest in data (Big, Open, and otherwise!), visualization, and smart cities.

Before that, I worked at TELUS for several years, building (mostly internal) web applications. I was a member of a development team working with new technologies. Most of my projects were tools to improve internal collaboration.

Contact

Feel free to email me at fhangler@gmail.com.

You can follow me on Twitter at @hangler, though I don't post very much anymore.

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The typeface used on this site is Equity by Matthew Butterick.

This site is built using Gatsby.

The title is not a misspelling, but a reference. (Even though I’ve only gone fishing once, and didn’t catch anything, the pun was too good to pass up.)