TheHeasman

Aristotle's golden mean.

I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing that out. Learned something new.

Ahhhhh. Thanks man. And totally nerding out here because YES. ANIMATIONS. Animations is why I fell in love with wanting to learn D3 in 2019. You can do things as you transition between data steps, that honestly, has been such a pain in the behind to try with anything else. I'm not a web developer. I'm a data guy.

TheHeasman

11 mesi fadiscuss

I'll check that out. At the moment I'm just building up a bunch of template code which I'll re-use. But might check out solid.js.

TheHeasman

11 mesi fadiscuss

Yaaasss. I think of it as being able to use a pencil to draw charts (and do creative stuff like Florence Nightingale's original polar area graph), instead of having a stencil that can draw things for you. It's a way to visually manipulate the DOM in a way if you're comfortable with data.

You can simply just use Tableau or Power BI and take screenshots otherwise.

TheHeasman

11 mesi fadiscuss

Uh, there are arrow operators in JS. D3.JS in Action Third Edition exclusively uses arrow operators.

(Trust me. I don't know jack about JavaScript, I had to get through the MDN docs to understand what they were, and once I did, made a whole lot more sense).

TheHeasman

11 mesi fadiscuss

Agreed. I fudged quite a lot in my post to make it accessible to the layman. Triee to explain to a UX designer I know that "D3 is a library for JavaScript that..." And I saw their brain switch off live in front of me.

Semantics matter more than literals sometimes.

*EDIT: Grammar. I was typing on my phone. Soz.

TheHeasman

11 mesi fadiscuss

This is very fair: I went for a metaphorical explanation, rather than a literal one. (For instance, I'd actually have had to write down the code for an SVG, and I was quickly writing this on my lunch break).

The `.selectAll().data().join()` data binding method (or `.enter()` on older versions) is very intuitive once you understand it, but for the layman coming in, it's inaccessible AF. I fudged a little in my explanation to make it more accessible. But hey. That's learning.

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"The survey was designed to search for bodies with orbits that extend far above and below the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun, part of the outer solar system that hasn’t been well-studied."

Christ. I didn't realise we hadn't looked at stuff not in Earth's plane. That's a tonne of space to explore, right in our own backyard.

TheHeasman

anno scorsodiscuss

The joys of being at a platform's mercy.

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anno scorsodiscuss

My first predictive analytics project in my Data Journalism career.

TheHeasman

8 anni fadiscuss

I've read this article before and I got a little annoyed. I've never ever heard "write drunk, edit sober" been advised in a literal context, but a metaphorical context.

Write drunk - shitty first draft where you don't care.

Edit sober - reasonable editing done when you have a fresh pair of eyes.

Why on earth did the author take this advice literally?

TheHeasman

8 anni fadiscuss

>Or scientific articles that go against the politically correct narrative?

Wut?

TheHeasman

8 anni fadiscuss

There's a thing called the political opposition (or over here in Brit Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition) and that's how democracies stop authoritarian rules y'know.

TheHeasman

9 anni fadiscuss

Gaming was one of the first markets for the Personal Computer, productivity was a sideshow for a bit.

TheHeasman

9 anni fadiscuss

>Google self-anonymises with a flag in their API

Even if they could, they wouldn't be able to find it.

TheHeasman

9 anni fadiscuss

Y'all know that there are business models where you don't need to take VC money to scale right?

TheHeasman

9 anni fadiscuss

Branson said the same thing about the Virgin Group when he turned it from a public to a private company.

TheHeasman

9 anni fadiscuss

There's some pretty exciting stuff happening in the startup scene in Nigeria, most famously Zuckerberg's PR visit to Lagos a few months ago.

Konga (a Nigerian company) is trying to upset Joomla (a South African company) to become the Amazon of Africa, and co-working spaces are starting to sprout all over the place.

There are over a hundred different mobile payment solutions, not just in the micro-payment sector, but for traditional middle class spending.

There's also been a recent boost for Nigeria to get back into agriculture (~80% - 90% of produce is imported. Welcome to the Resource Curse), there are some entrepreneurs trying to approach this field with the advantages tech can bring to the African agriculture landscape.

TheHeasman

10 anni fadiscuss

SEEKING WORK - Content Marketing Strategist, London, Remote YES

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I've worked with 7 figure entrepreneurs & NYT Bestselling Authors such as Brian Tracy.

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Samples of writing available on request (can't link to them for confidentiality reasons).

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Submissions

The Odyssey Was Written for Sailors - A Visual Essay

15 Minutes vs. 14 Hours: The Reality of Custom Data Visualisation

A Brief History of UK Interest Rates

Luck and Risk

AI and Intuition

Excessive planning is a fools game

Why is D3 so Verbose?

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Part 1 of 7 – My First Predictive Analytics Project

I Used a Market Basket Analysis During a Job Interview

Everything You Do Is Marketing

Tim Ferriss Needs A Startup To Invest In

3 Gears Kinect Hack offers effortless 3D control.

What Microsoft Research got in the works

Death to banking, I'm going to become a Web Designer

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