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Before my current job in data, I was a Data Journalist for 4-5 years. Frustrated by the limitations of Datawrapper and Flourish, I vowed one day to learn D3 so I could create the c…

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 bet…

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.

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 …

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 doc…

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 …

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 writi…

"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 …

The joys of being at a platform's mercy.

My first predictive analytics project in my Data Journalism career.