Four short links: 17 January 2014
Making Remote Work — The reality of a remote workplace is that the connections are largely artificial constructs. People can be very, very isolated. A person’s default behavior when they go...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 February 2014
China’s $122BB Boom in Shadow Banking is Happening on Phones (Quartz) — Tencent’s recently launched online money market fund (MMF), Licai Tong, drew in 10 billion yuan ($1.7 billion) in just six days...
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5 reasons to learn D3
Designers and developers making data visualizations on the web are buzzing about d3.js. But why? 1. D3 doesn’t stand for data-design dictator It actually stands for Data-Driven Documents. Which is to...
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Building pipelines to facilitate data analysis
In every data analysis, you have to string together many tools. You need tools for data wrangling, visualisation, and modelling to understand what’s going on in your data. To use these tools...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 September 2014
The Care and Feeding of Weird Machines Found in Executable Metadata (YouTube) — talk from 29th Chaos Communication Congress, on using tricking the ELF linker/loader into arbitrary computation from the...
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Use data or be data
Trina Chiasson Arguments from all sides have surrounded the question of whether or not everyone should learn to code. Trina Chiasson, co-founder and CEO of Infoactive, says learning to code changed her...
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Telling your data’s story
Editor’s note: this post is part of our investigation into Big Data Design and Social Science. Michael Freeman covers the use of storytelling frameworks in visualizations in his new tutorial video...
View ArticleFour short links: 16 June 2015
axe — accessibility testing of web apps, so you can integrate accessibility testing into your continuous EVERYTHING pipeline. metrics-graphics — Mozilla Javascript library optimized for visualizing...
View ArticleFour short links: 31 July 2015
Buzz: An Extensible Programming Language for Self-Organizing Heterogeneous Robot Swarms (arXiv) — Swarm-based primitives allow for the dynamic management of robot teams, and for sharing information...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 October 2015
Dataflow Computers: Their History and Future (PDF) — entry from 2008 Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering. Mirador — open source tool for visual exploration of complex data sets. It...
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