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And more specifically d3.geom.voronoi() https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Voronoi-Geom These examples are by D3.js author Mike Bostock, who currently works at The NYT. http://bl.…

This is part of the creeping one-sided "professionalization" of low-wage work. Employees are expected to arrive pre-trained, stick within specific constraining roles, and be availa…

> The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today unveiled … a Web portal that will link to full-text papers a year after they're published. > Open-access advocates such as University of…

The primary focus of Meep is simulating the interaction of light with Photonic Crystals (periodic materials that control light based on both their shape and composition). http://en…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hours_After_Marriage A scene was recreated for Dr. Jacob Bronowski’s beautiful 1973 documentary series The Ascent of Man: www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zz…

> Despite being banned, Unidan has already made a new account, called UnidanX, and has been posting for most of the day under that username. It's looking like he hasn't been banned…

Some people say this is "missing the point of traveling" but for certain experiences it's an amazing idea. Going to a quiet museum, exploring a cathedral, or attending an intimate …

Hesse is timeless, there's a reason he resonated with so many people in the 60s movements. Siddhartha is a great meditation on life in its entirety. For startup-focused professiona…

"Activity was strongest in the U.K., where companies raised 28% of the total amount in the second quarter, followed by France with 19% and Germany with 15%." How long until Berlin …

Thanks, there are a lot of overlapping packages out there and it helps to see a working collection. And does anyone have suggestions on D3.js packages that aren't just code snippet…

"Perfume" by Patrick Suskind, and the movie is great as well. The main character is a horrible person but so is everyone else. Possibly the funniest nihilist book ever written. Als…

Dr. David Perlmutter should be ashamed for contributing to the trend of lumping ADHD in with huge lists of symptoms such as (quote): "dementia, decreased libido, depression, chroni…

Not sure about individual-scale models, but Markov Chains are common in Mathematical Ecology. You can do quite a lot in animal group modeling with transition matrices and basic pro…

Thanks, it's even focused on web data. Just got it for Kindle. Some nice irony too: There's a typo in Jonathan Schwabish's bio with visualizaing.org instead of visualizing.org

Can you recommend a book or project idea for building intuition on messy data? When it comes up in my hobby projects I compromise on the fly, and a professional approach would be m…