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Bl.ocks mentions (8)

• Timeline chart : Where to start?

  - elijah meeks has some force collision label work that he's done, though I don't know where it lives. I'd google around, it may have lived on bl.ocks.org; there may be more up-to-date stuff too. Source: 11 months ago

• [OC] Russian population decline hit -1,042,675 last year. This population pyramid shows the development since 1946. With wars, famine, and the fall of Soviet marked.

  D3 is luckily a very popular library with lots of resources available. I'd suggest also checking out bl.ocks and Observable for great examples. The latter one is amazing if you just want to do statistics/visualization work, since it acts like a Jupyter-like notebook environment. Source: about 2 years ago

• Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links

  Yeah, for that use case, https://bl.ocks.org is better than CodePen. Publish a GitHub gist, replace gist.github.com with bl.ocks.org, and sneak in "/raw" between the username and the gist id. You can even point to specific commit hashes. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• How do I embed this d3 visualization into my own html page?

  The harder way: Follow an example of someone coding the visualization on their local set up (which may be hard to find depending on what your are looking for as a lot of D3 examples have migrated to Observable). But here is an old glossary of examples it is on an old website called Bl.ocks that showed D3 examples using Github gists. Source: over 2 years ago

• Optimize rendering a map w/ large data set

  That's great, and hey maybe I'll steal some of your recipes from your blog too :) Currently I'm following https://bl.ocks.org/ for inspiration and don't have too many other sources to read through, but your blog seems like it's filled w/ topics on data viz & getting around pain points, I'm all about it! Source: over 2 years ago

Observable mentions (286)

• I'm writing a new vector search SQLite Extension

  Could this be implemented in Rust? Does that project (sqlite-loadable-rs) support WASM? https://observablehq.com/@asg017/introducing-sqlite-loadable-rs. - Source: Hacker News / about 21 hours ago

• Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

  Have you tried out a tangled-tree visualization? [1] I've found it to be super useful when visualizing these sorts of relationships in a compact way. [1] https://observablehq.com/@nitaku/tangled-tree-visualization-ii. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

  Maybe I'm easy to impress, but I always stop and play around with the nested tree example when I come across Sortable. It works so flawlessly, and feels very tuned to mobile dnd. It even works to arrange (and reflow) inline spans in a paragraph! I have yet to come across this functionality in a text editor.. [0]: https://observablehq.com/@dleeftink/sortable-playground. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data

  Arrow JS is just ArrayBuffers underneath. You do want to amortize some operations to avoid unnecessary conversions. I.e. Arrow JS stores strings as UTF-8, but native JS strings are UTF-16 I believe. Arrow is especially powerful across the WASM <--> JS boundary! In fact, I wrote a library to interpret Arrow from Wasm memory into JS without any copies [0]. (Motivating blog post [1]) [0]:... - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection

  Here’s the D3 implementation (which is just an interrupted azimuthal equidistant projection): https://observablehq.com/@d3/azimuthal-equidistant-hemispheres. - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago