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bflbfl

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About bflbfl

Learner

http://www.nowherenearithaca.com

Recent Projects: Exploring the Google PageRank Algorithm (D3-based): https://googledrive.com/host/0B2GQktu-wcTiaWw5OFVqT1k3bDA/

Visualizing U.S. Births and Deaths in Real-Time, a Statistical Simulation (D3-based, with Bill Snebold) https://googledrive.com/host/0B_n1OLMaOursZUwxSUpsX1JFb1E/

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    Wrapping World Births/Deaths Simulation Viz in Chrome Packaged App

    This is an experiment with the new "chrome packaged apps". I wrapped the existing world births/deaths visualization in a chrome "packaged app". There were a few quirks to get d3 to…

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    very cool!

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    @phorese - thanks for the suggestions - great color info For those who might be interested, I have updated things so that * colors are a little brighter (not right yet, but maybe b…

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    @edem It's also at these two places https://googledrive.com/host/0B_n1OLMaOursX2hsRUhZNElwZmc/ https://googledrive.com/host/0B4G_4-zdiD1gU2NoX285dmxpTXM/

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    FYI - I saw some weird googlesite errors that might be related to the (moderate) load it's getting at the moment. The visualization is also on this googledrive site https://googled…

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    @femto - that's a good point. That occurred to me, but for the moment I decided to stick with the red/green that was already used for the previous visualization. Well sort of, as I…

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    @ahassan - good catch. The geometry data file had them together I guess and I need to go through and split that up. @arscan - that is really cool. I'd say go for making your own. T…

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    A few initial notes on this are here: http://www.nowherenearithaca.com/2013/10/visualization-of-wo...

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    Thanks for the google ref - seems to definitely say it's valid in some cases (e.g., when you expect them to generally stay on the page they come to).

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    Didn't remember who he was until I saw the "Inventing on Principle" cover slide - that talk and what he was doing in it blew my mind. It just felt like some kind of breakthrough ab…

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    For those who may come across this, I have added some extra stuff to let you watch how the power method converges (or doesn't converge) to the PageRank vector. Just click the "Expl…