Admittedly, coming up with a blog post can be a challenge for me. After years of teaching online and as a student in graduate school (two masters and a doctorate degree), I have a hard time making myself read or write anything that isn’t absolutely required. As I mentioned in my previous posts on blogging,[...]
In my initial post on blogging (Do I Need to Blog?) I concluded that blogging is a good way to document the lessons I’ve learned on topics that interest me. This post thus briefly explains some important lessons about what platforms are available and why I chose to install WordPress on my own host. The[...]
Frankly I’ve struggled with this question for a long time and although my gut says yes, I should have a blog given I’m an IT professional and professor who has a lot to offer, I can’t help thinking how I’ve managed to get along without one for decades. Admittedly, this is the third or may[...]
People, mostly women, are increasingly willing to pay to take online courses to learn to quilt, sew, and bake, among other things.
Parents of school-aged children along with young adults and experienced professionals are increasingly recognizing that the ability to code is as essential to being marketable in today’s technical society as are the abilities to read and write.
An example of a Day/Hour Heatmap showing concurrent user sessions over time in a development environment. It was generated with WP-D3 v2.1.1 and adapted from http://figurebelow.com/d3/wp-d3-and-day-hour-heatmap/. [d3-source canvas="wpd3-723-0"] [print-me]
This example pie chart shows the relative size of various age groups. It was adapted to work in WP-D3 v. 2.1.1 from the original located at http://figurebelow.com/2013/03/13/wp-d3-tutorial-adding-d3-snippet-into-a-wordpress-post/ [d3-source canvas="wpd3-715-0"] [print-me]
This demo chart contains the stock and Bollinger Bands (red) of Ford stocks (blue) between 1-Feb-2013 and 31-Jan-2014 and was adapted from the original located at http://figurebelow.com/d3/short-tutorial-into-wp-d3-v2/. [d3-source canvas="wpd3-709-0"] [print-me]
A box-and-whisker plot uses simple glyphs that summarize a quantitative distribution with five standard statistics: the smallest value, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and largest value. This summary approach allows the viewer to easily recognize differences between distributions.
As Mike Bostock explained, this simple force-directed graph shows character co-occurence in Les Misérables. It is a physical simulation of charged particles and springs that places related characters in closer proximity, while unrelated characters are farther apart.
This simple bar chart originally by Mike Bostock is constructed from a TSV file storing the frequency of letters in the English language. The chart uses the following D3 features: d3.tsv – loads and parses data from a tab separated file d3.format – format percentages d3.scale.ordinal – x-position encoding d3.scale.linear – y-position encoding d3.max -[...]
An example of a D3 script that detects the collision of objects. [d3-source canvas="wpd3-325-0"] [print-me]