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Whoever made that first line chart should have used step interpolation. There is no point in time when none integer amounts of seconds have been added, but it gives the impression it's been smeared over the whole year

When I moved from the UK to USA it was the same in reverse. I had just got a new phone and number and immediately started getting spam calls and texts. I asked my colleagues how I could report or block these and they didn't really have an answer. OFCOM in the UK largely deals with spam and when I've had spam it's usually been that it comes from outside the UK but will still eventually get blocked

Old CSS, New CSS 6 years ago

I used to write XHTML and found that if you server it with the mime type application/xhtml+xml then the browser will validate it, which can be a problem if you can't reliably output valid XML

Legends in D3 11 years ago

Looks very good.

For the size legend, the defaults are a bit odd. You should almost always be using d3.scale.sqrt() as you're comparing area, also zero in the domain should usually map to zero on the range.

I made a similar legend for circle areas, but they are stacked within each other. http://bl.ocks.org/aubergene/4723857

Life paint 11 years ago

Side note, but this would be great for some creative graffiti uses

I was given a Firefox OS phone at Mozfest last year. I lost my other phone earlier this year and so used it exclusively for four weeks. I'm sorry to say it's pretty terrible at this stage. I was using v2 of Firefox OS.

The problems are broadly that it was slow, unreliable and poorly designed. It would just become completely unresponsive a couple of times a week, requiring the battery to be removed to restart. There are very few well known apps. Twitter seems to be the only one, and it was so slow for scrolling that I gave up using it. The included apps were just placeholders to install apps, almost all of them only worked online. I wouldn't recommend getting one to anybody. I'm sure you could buy a cheap secondhand Android and have a better experience. It was worse than Android 1.6.

There's such a huge mountain of work for the Mozilla developers to get this to be in anyway competitive to Android. I think Mozilla would be better to concentrate their resources elsewhere.

Hey, one of the Bloomberg developers here. Thanks for the comments.

The prominent most likely score is a bit confusing, if you click through to the match detail then the histogram shows a range of goal differences. So for the first match we predict a goal difference of >2 to Brazil, although the highest probability for an actual score result is 2-0 (16%). Our model makes projections for up to 8-0 in both directions, but we aggregate them for display in this interactive.

How Americans Die 12 years ago

I work on the team, but didn't do this interactive, but I sit next to the guy who did. The other comments in this thread are correct, it's d3 and some jQuery. D3 is an amazing library and well worth learning. Thanks for all the feedback, we're reading it all.

Data Visualization Developer, Bloomberg - New York, NYC, NY

We are looking for a data visualization developer to join Bloomberg's Visual Data team. You will be a part of a small group of talented designers and programmers in establishing Bloomberg as a global leader in data visualization. With Bloomberg's trove of data at your fingertips, you will be delivering consumer facing products that emphasize exploration and discovery while engaging and delighting users.

Examples of Visual Data products: - Billionaires: http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/ - State-by-State: http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/state-by-state/

You will be key in selecting the tools, technologies, and development of best practices. You will report to the R&D Head of Visual Data and work closely with designers and editors.

Qualifications:

Qualified candidates will have 5 or more years of experience developing web applications, services, or data visualizations and find much of the following list familiar:

- JavaScript - HTML/CSS - Ruby, Python, Node.js

You can also email me directly at jburgess29@bloomberg.net

http://jobs.bloomberg.com/job/New-York-Data-Visualization-De...

H1B sponsorship is possible

Systems like PRISM should be a lobbying issue for the NRA. Background checks and gun ownership registration become moot when the government has copies of all your web browsing history, purchasing activity and correspondence. PRISM is the biggest threat to the second amendment, the NRA needs to wake up to this.