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Combining R and D3.js Part 2
A follow up on my previous work with crime by police beat, adding the ability to switch between beat and district. A district is a much larger area and changes the perception of the underlying data set. View the demo
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Combining R and D3.js Part 1
Ever since my first programming experience with AutoLISP, the variant of the LISP language intended for automating AutoCAD, I had wanted to do data analytics again. I have used Javascript to process data, with the main disadvantage being that it is a very resource intensive method and not exactly what Javascript was intended for when it was more »
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Experience with ES6: Part One
I began to actively look at the new implementation of Javascript, based on the ES6 spec, around June of 2016 after attending a related meetup about NodeJS. I had heard about languages like CoffeeScript that could compile to browser-compatible Javascript as well as tools like Babel for compiling ES6 to Javascript, but I had never touched more »
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Changing the React-ion
After completing a React build using Webpack, I wanted to get back to the build system I had first used when I began web development, Gulp. My previous experience with Gulp was limited to minification and LESS compilation, two relatively straightforward processes. I quickly realized that creating a React build would require much more development as more »
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The Sky, It’s Full of Stars
Having a longstanding interest in 3D graphics going back years, I was excited to hear about the built-in 3D capabilities of web browsers thanks to webGL. The ability to generate 3D graphics through the use of Javascript libraries without any additional browser plugins intrigued me, and soon after learning about ThreeJS, I set out to more »
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Initiating my own React-ion
Diving into ReactJS, I began with a recommendation to check out a course by Wes Bos. After doing the tutorials, I decided to take a different approach to prototyping than the one I took when I first developed with MeteorJS. My Meteor experience involved taking a tutorial I had done and using that as a launching more »