TheHeasman

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by TheHeasman 1mo ago
Before my current job in data, I was a Data Journalist for 4-5 years. Frustrated by the limitations of Datawrapper and Flourish, I vowed one day to learn D3 so I could create the custom visuals I adored to look at in the wild. Things like s
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Show HN: Visual essay made in D3.js about The Odyssey(theheasman.com)
2 points by TheHeasman 1mo ago|1 comments
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The Odyssey Was Written for Sailors - A Visual Essay(theheasman.com)
3 points by TheHeasman 2mo ago|0 comments
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15 Minutes vs. 14 Hours: The Reality of Custom Data Visualisation(theheasman.com)
1 points by TheHeasman 8mo ago|0 comments
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A Brief History of UK Interest Rates(theheasman.com)
2 points by TheHeasman 9mo ago|0 comments
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Luck and Risk(theheasman.com)
2 points by TheHeasman 10mo ago|0 comments
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AI and Intuition(theheasman.com)
3 points by TheHeasman 11mo ago|0 comments
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by TheHeasman 11mo ago
Aristotle's golden mean.
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Excessive planning is a fools game(theheasman.com)
4 points by TheHeasman 11mo ago|3 comments
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing that out. Learned something new.
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
Ahhhhh. Thanks man. And totally nerding out here because YES. ANIMATIONS. Animations is why I fell in love with wanting to learn D3 in 2019. You can do things as you transition between data steps, that honestly, has been such a pain in the
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
I'll check that out. At the moment I'm just building up a bunch of template code which I'll re-use. But might check out solid.js.
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
Yaaasss. I think of it as being able to use a pencil to draw charts (and do creative stuff like Florence Nightingale's original polar area graph), instead of having a stencil that can draw things for you. It's a way to visually ma
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
Uh, there are arrow operators in JS. D3.JS in Action Third Edition exclusively uses arrow operators. (Trust me. I don't know jack about JavaScript, I had to get through the MDN docs to understand what they were, and once I did, made a
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
Agreed. I fudged quite a lot in my post to make it accessible to the layman. Triee to explain to a UX designer I know that "D3 is a library for JavaScript that..." And I saw their brain switch off live in front of me. Semantics ma
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
This is very fair: I went for a metaphorical explanation, rather than a literal one. (For instance, I'd actually have had to write down the code for an SVG, and I was quickly writing this on my lunch break). The `.selectAll().data().jo
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Why is D3 so Verbose?(theheasman.com)
131 points by TheHeasman 1y ago|68 comments
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
"The survey was designed to search for bodies with orbits that extend far above and below the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun, part of the outer solar system that hasn’t been well-studied." Christ. I didn't rea
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
The joys of being at a platform's mercy.
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Part 1 of 7 – My First Predictive Analytics Project(theheasman.com)
1 points by TheHeasman 1y ago|1 comments
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by TheHeasman 1y ago
My first predictive analytics project in my Data Journalism career.
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I Used a Market Basket Analysis During a Job Interview(theheasman.com)
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by TheHeasman 8y ago
I've read this article before and I got a little annoyed. I've never ever heard "write drunk, edit sober" been advised in a literal context, but a metaphorical context. Write drunk - shitty first draft where you don&#x27
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by TheHeasman 8y ago
>Or scientific articles that go against the politically correct narrative? Wut?
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by TheHeasman 8y ago
There's a thing called the political opposition (or over here in Brit Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition) and that's how democracies stop authoritarian rules y'know.
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by TheHeasman 9y ago
Gaming was one of the first markets for the Personal Computer, productivity was a sideshow for a bit.
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by TheHeasman 9y ago
>Google self-anonymises with a flag in their API Even if they could, they wouldn't be able to find it.
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by TheHeasman 9y ago
Y'all know that there are business models where you don't need to take VC money to scale right?
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by TheHeasman 9y ago
Branson said the same thing about the Virgin Group when he turned it from a public to a private company.
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by TheHeasman 9y ago
There's some pretty exciting stuff happening in the startup scene in Nigeria, most famously Zuckerberg's PR visit to Lagos a few months ago. Konga (a Nigerian company) is trying to upset Joomla (a South African company) to become

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