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    <h2 style="margin-top:10px">About COVID-19 Charts by DT</h2>
    <p>
        This site presents a set of COVID-19 charts to help understand what is happening around the world.  The
        data is sourced directly from <a href="https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19">John Hopkin's GitHub repository</a>.  The charts and created from
        <a href="https://www.python.org/">python</a> using  <a href="https://pandas.pydata.org/">pandas</a>, <a href="https://plotly.com/">plotly</a> and
        <a href="https://github.com/plotly/orca">orca</a>.  This site was created with <a href="https://pages.github.com">GitHub.io</a>,
        <a href="https://jekyllrb.com">Jekyll</a> and <a href="https://getbootstrap.com">Bootstrap 4</a>.
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    <p>
        This is a free, unsupported, no guarantee or warranty service provided by me, Stephen D. Gibson (DungeonTiger).
        You can find me here on <a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/stephendgibson">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://github.com/dungeontiger/">GitHub</a> or
        <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stephen.d.gibson/">Facebook</a>.
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    <p>
        I am a Software Engineer specializing in visualization and data analytics. I am also a self styled Citizen Data Scientist.
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    <h5>Why DungeonTiger?</h5>
    <p>
        I sometimes get this question.  Long ago when the internet started and people were creating new accounts all the time I got tired
        of creating random user names like 'gibson_66' or 'stephen_gibson_98' so I tried to think of a user name that would be so unique
        it would always be available.  I thought "I like dungeons" (<a href="https://dnd.wizards.com/">Dungeons & Dragons</a>) and "I like tigers", so "DungeonTiger" was born.
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    <p>
        With all this static content it feels like the web from the 90's!  So retro!
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