Following their great Data Looks Better Naked post, the clever guys at Dark Horse Analytics have created a guide on how to remove Chartjunk and create really clean and expressive tables. The gif above pretty much sums it up, but go and read the full post.
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Software articles by Daniel Pradilla about programming, Python, AWS, AI, data, automation, and practical engineering work.
Creating interactive visualizations of large datasets using JavaScript
Crossfilter is a JavaScript library initially designed by Square to explore large multivariate datasets in a web browser. It basically allows you to create sorted indexes and feed them to a charting library like D3, and enable the user to filter by clicking and dragging, even when sifting through 200.000 rows in a 5MB file:… Continue reading Creating interactive visualizations of large datasets using JavaScript
A reliable list of country codes
Who knows how much time I’ve wasted over the years trying to find a reliable data source for country names, ISO codes, phone prefixes and currencies. I have my own personal dysfunctional set of tables built manually from bits and pieces found online. But the other day I ran into this beauty: and updated ISO 3166… Continue reading A reliable list of country codes
How to create an embeddable timeline chart
The other day, web developer friend asked me how to create and insert a timeline into WordPress. He actually wanted to put an interactive timeline with links, images and video on the homepage of a news site. I checked out several options out there and settled on TimelineJS. You can create timeline charts directly on… Continue reading How to create an embeddable timeline chart
How to demo an app in six steps | John Nelson
Over in his blog, John Nelson gives us a full step by step recommendations on how to successfully demo an app in front of an audience. In my case, my two biggest mistakes are usually going too fast or not providing enough context before beginning. I know it because of the questions that rise later… Continue reading How to demo an app in six steps | John Nelson