February 27, 2014

D3 provides utility functions to perform common operations on Javascript arrays: min max extent (range) sum median mean sort quantile bisect

February 27, 2014

Scientists Begin Looking at Programmers’ Brains: The Neuroscience of Programming from The Huffington Post. A new study provides new evidence…

February 27, 2014

Almost every day, javascript blows my mind. Today I discovered that you can convert a string to a number simply by prepending a +: Awesome.

February 26, 2014

When binding a primitive datum to a node in a D3 visualization, the callback function can be implicitly called on the datum without the…

February 26, 2014

Information visualization (insight, understanding, and discovery) and information art (aesthetics) differ in their context, audience, and…

February 25, 2014

D3 is a data visualization tool that uses method chaining to produce big pictures with little code. The selection library performs a full…

February 21, 2014

D3 uses the W3C standard selector library, and selection modifiers work on both single and multiple element selections, and will…

February 20, 2014

The variable is a hidden parameter in javascript functions that contains all the arguments for the invocation in a pseudo-array (ie: it…

February 17, 2014

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett (published in 1910) Arnold Bennett’s recommendations for leading a full and happy life…

February 15, 2014

I was following a tutorial on how to include a twitter widget in the sidebar of my octopress site and couldn’t figure out why my twitter…

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