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elijahmeeks

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About elijahmeeks

I work at Confluent doing data viz, notebooks and AI. I'm also the author of D3.js in Action and Semiotic.js. I used to work at Noteable, Stanford & Netflix & Apple.

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    I'm biased of course but I think the fact that at the end you have an interactive document and not a static block of texts and figures makes it transformative.

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    Comment #35926298

    Reach out and we can try to fix it.

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    Comment #35926292

    yep, they made the shift yesterday morning

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    Comment #35922746

    The Noteable plugin (disclaimer: I work there) allows you to create an entire computational notebook from a prompt. Load data, EDA, ML, viz, natural language description... all of …

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    Comment #9834748

    I found that part really interesting since the requirement for a zero baseline today is limited to bar charts (see Few) whereas this insists you use it for line charts as well (whi…

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    Comment #9834731

    You must not know Tufte very well or not have looked very closely at this text. It includes numerous recommendations to use decorative elements in charts, and that kind of thing ho…

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    Comment #8009683

    SVG performance on Firefox is abysmal. Even MSIE10/11 handles it much better. Start a petition to get Firefox to handle SVG as well as all the other browsers.

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    Comment #8009674

    I'd love to see a screenshot, if you want to tweet or email me. I never had any problems testing it on Safari.

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    Comment #7543185

    Well, I can guarantee it's not going to be like jQuery, since I'm really not all that familiar with it. The book does deal with the structure of D3 in detail, which you'll see in t…

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    I'm writing "D3.js in Action" for diving deep into D3

    I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with the JavaScript infoviz library D3. I've been writing a book for Manning that attempts to do a deep dive into D3, which went on Early Access …