Tutorial: How I Work With Data

(I wrote this quickly today on a whim as I felt it was a good thing to do when returning after the 3 week post pause, I’ll improve and add many more sections in the future)

Obviously before you do what I do you need to understand symbolism comms, my Intro and this post Comms Basics are both good to understand the framework.

Once you understand that the problem becomes how to compare and contrast data so as to understand relationships in time. There is a near infinite amount of data and if you’ve ever wondered how I navigate it, well you are about to find out precisely how.

I use a bunch of free programs to do it as well as simple windows tricks. Anything I do will work on any computer but it’s a lot easier with an SSD and 2 monitors (at least)

So first thing we need is data points, and there are a million places to get them. I just found this site today https://worldhistoryproject.org/topics/babe-ruth and I can tell it’s going to be useful to me to get dates in relation to figures and events.

Once I find good data I turn it into a timeline, and then I compare and contrast that timeline in relation with other events. For example both wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977 and this site (and many others) allow you to see various type of events that happen of consequence around a given day. https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1977

So you can see if anything happened around the date you have in mind, and perhaps you’ll find a pattern, but of course one data point is not a good pattern, so we need a lot more data to really see anything.

You also need a way to keep old data and this is where my system comes into place. I have a timeline I’ve built over years now that has hundreds of thousands of data points. It is hundreds of thousands of folders I’ve built and organized in various ways to let me see potential relationships between subjects and time. I can’t even begin to describe how crucial this tool is to decoding for me. I intended on sharing some of it, but I haven’t yet found a way to do so anonymously, so instead I’ll explain how I made it and use it.

In simplest terms all I do is I find an event I think is important and I create a folder out of it.

2016 11 08 Trump Elected POTUS 45

I then give it a unique icon and put it in a folder of similar events, and then you can easily organize them by date (not done here)

This is obviously time consuming and given I have a timeline of hundreds of thousands of consequential events I found many ways to quickly pull data for decoding purposes.

Quickany2Ico: I use this to convert any image into an icon, this way when I create mass amounts of folders I can visually identify relationships, it’s effective for study. Making the icons themselves is a labor of love and also helps retention in various ways. https://www.carifred.com/quick_any2ico/

So you just drag any image into it and it spits out a .ico file to make the folders visually identifiable, important when you are dealing with massive amounts of data.

Let me go through an example.

This site https://www.onthisday.com/people/donald-trump is a good one to get massive quantities of data on a subject largely because it has the dates in an easy to use format for comparison purposes. YYYY-MM-DD so what you see is the exact sequence of me taking the data point and converting them into folders.

1. So first is the site I linked
2. Copy and past into a text editor: Visual Studio Code. This is a program I use frequently to mass edit lists of names I produce. https://code.visualstudio.com/
3. I then use simple search/replace function to remove the dashes, I copy the results and paste the text into….
4. Text2Folders: I use this program to instantly turn a list of names copied in step 3 into folders https://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/text-2-folders/
5. I then mass change the folders icons produced using https://www.softpedia.com/get/File-managers/File-and-Folder-Tools.shtml the example above was Trump, so they would all simply be an icon of him.
6. Finished example (Movies can be created thousands in minutes)

This is just one of many ways I get data points, and I arrange them in many ways so as to get the most use out of them. I always keep them by category alone, and then I have one massive folder with every meaningful data point. As you get tons and tons of data points it’ll quickly become crowded and so you won’t want say sports dates to crowd out everything else, but you will want that data at times. The solution is just to keep it on the side and drop the folders in and then delete them after. Windows naturally selects them and so they can be added/removed easily and while highlighted you can look to see if there is some connection between time and events.

Of course we need many more data points, so here’s another resource I pull dates from a lot in a different way.

1. This one is from Wikipedia tables, there are thousands of these things often with exact dates that can be ripped straight from a thousand different wikipedia pages. It is about as easy as pulling dates from Onthisday, but it does require an extra step
2. So what I do is I copy and paste the data into OpenOffice Calc (Free) the data will often need to be rearranged with highlighting columns and Ctrl+X until you get them in the right order (and removing junk data) but you can quickly get massive quantities of data
3. Then simply highlight the column with dates. Format-> Cells -> YYYY-MM-DD
4. then you can follow the same steps as the prior tutorial to make mass folders the same way. Visual Studio Code is fast when dealing with massive amounts of text.
5. The extra step here is a new one I’ve discovered, as folder character limits make truncating long text necessary. Usually you can see what you need to see with 100 characters or less. https://onlinetexttools.com/truncate-text

Example 2: Say I wanted to extract all the historic places in Queens, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Queens,_New_York I would go in and copy and paste all this data into Openoffice Calc

If it all appears in one cell it’s because you didn’t pick the right copy/paste function. Go thru the edit menu if necessary. So then you have all the data in, next thing is to delete the pictures, you don’t need to do it one at a time, just select 1 pic and then use edit-> Select all and it’ll automatically select all images allowing you to remove them instantly by deletion.

Next up we need to do is reorganize it, so I’d select full columns and ctrl X and move them around making dates on the left, then select left most and edit -> Cells and change the format to YYYY-MM-DD that will allow us to move it into Visual Studio code, there we can mass edit the text easily. Then take the text data into text2folders, make the folders, then mass apply icons to the type using FFTools.

More Ways to get data points and navigate them:

I also use Google and Twitter timeframes as often there is a need to hone in on events of a specific month. I just favorite each year on each service and then I can select them in my favorites this easily.

With Twitter I can look at a specific celeb and see what they posed in any given day in seconds with a bit of preparation.

• Twitter Timeframe Example : https://twitter.com/search?q=(from%3AJack)%20until%3A2006-12-31%20since%3A2006-01-01&src=typed_query&f=live
• GOOG Timeframe Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump&sxsrf=ALeKk007UM-SMh1GE90kzuwBm1_K1Ru6kw%3A1614239284873&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1996%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F1996&tbm=

I’ve long looked for other ways to do this like on Instagram but to the best of my knowledge there is no way. Let me know if you know of any in the comments.

There are an incredible amount of other places to get data from,

Usually I don’t have enough space for comments but this will be a short post. Don’t place links or leads here tho because that’ll throw off the search engine and I’ll delete it. Just questions and commentary please.

I use various browsers but most of them allow for favorting with folders, and because of how commonly I need to see a specific date range I make year by year links allowing me to quickly navigate to a specific timeframe.

I was pulling these dates this week https://www.energy.gov/lm/doe-history/doe-history-timeline/timeline-events-1991-2000

Obviously Wikileaks is an incredible resource https://wikileaks.org/popeorders/document/ and Q Told us to look read this https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/95mkultra.pdf

Speaking of Q

Here’s another good one https://qanon.pub/ of course when you are dealing with timeframes you really need to look thru the Qmap for it, and the trick here is to click the “all” button on the top right (upside-down A) and then save the whole page locally on an SSD for quick loading. (You’ll want to make sure all the images are loaded by scrolling thru it first, just click the middle mouse key down and let it automatically slowly scroll and you won’t need to do anything to load the whole thing) I almost always have the Qmap up when decoding because any event that happened while Q was active is something that must be considered as often Q’s comms will help paint the character of where the world was at the time.

Qresearch board search engine https://qresear.ch/ I used to use this all the time, it was incredibly useful, but I often forget about it. I still go to the boards everyday to collect notables but this search engine when properly used is powerful. Find a subject that interests you and if anyone has posted anything about it on the boards, it’ll come up. It is therefore more than any other resource online a narrow and focused place that is closer in tune to decoding than any other online.

Other useful tools, there are many sites you can look by day https://pagesix.com/2020/05/14/ like https://nypost.com/2018/04/13/ You can also search by category https://nypost.com/search/pigeon/

Wikipedia is the most extraordinary resource when used properly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States the quantity of lists of things to dig into is far beyond any single persons ability to dig into them all.

You can borrow books for free on some sites https://archive.org/ old magazines http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/

More date places https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/yearsanddecades.html https://takemeback.to/year/1933

There’s also places you can go to find specific timeframes for newspapers https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=A7-hzOuI2KQC&dat=19740717&b_mode=2&hl=en something I’ve been meaning to do more of

Surprising places to find data points, https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/chicken looking through basic meanings https://1000logos.net/facebook-logo/ lots of sites chronicle things like the history of logos and the changing of logos often correspond to a comm, so it’s a good thing to dig into!

some sites just have peculiar history that can be dug thru https://myjewelryrepair.com/2017/10/hope-diamond-curse/

I’ll be going into Cern soon, https://timeline.web.cern.ch/timeline-header/89 and so stuff like this is great to dig into.

Search Engines: https://yandex.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/ Tho I am forced to use GOOG for date confined searches there are many other search engines that will pull up results that are less curated.

Here’s another spectacular resource https://qresear.ch/resignations a

I don’t actually use this anymore https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Efm2AcuMJ7whuuB6T7ouOIwrE_9S-1vDJLAXIVPZU2g/edit#gid=1596710080 but the spreadsheet in theory gives blunt answers to a variety of meanings to the Q Map

There’s also stuff like screenplays which can be found through simple searching, sometimes you’ll get lucky and find a site dedicated to a subject https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Scripts

There’s also a few little issues like editing the registry to make Windows more able to handle more than 5k folders in a folder without running slow, but you can look that up on your own.

Other programs I use

Bulk Rename Utility: I use this to organize the vast quantities of folders, ability to name/rename/ Mostly useful for fixing mistakes or to quickly find patterns in nomenclature. https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/

ShareX: I use this one for screenshots with a hotkey, https://getsharex.com/ https://www.techradar.com/reviews/sharex

XNView: Contact Sheet capability: Ctrl K after selecting 4 images and then it instantly combines them in a way that allows me to mass make 4 pics into one image so that I don’t have to spend forever in an image editing program combining them. https://www.xnview.com/en/ (This is something I discovered this last week and it’s going to speed up post making by a lot!)

Ok, this post is a mess but I want to put it out before I put the first of two big posts this week just so it doesn’t suck any attention away from them. This is more about a tiny subsection of reader who wants to take the next step after all. Won’t be but 1 or 2 people that likely read this and try anything with it, but for those people wonderful things might come of this, so that’s why I’m doing it : )