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http://scottcheng.com
https://an-ocean-apart.vercel.app
I used to be in a long-distance relationship. Like many lovers who were apart, we had lots and lots of phone calls. I made a visualization of them, and gave to her as a gift on Chinese Valentine's Day.
The name "an ocean apart" came from the Julie Delpy song [0] from Before Sunset. Oh I was young and romantic.
I made https://lostjourneys.live, a virtual bot that road-trips around the world in Google Street View and broadcasts its journeys, because I want to travel and see the world so badly!
That's just API spec, not syntactically correct JavaScript... The parameters in [] are optional. I.e. you can pass only one array to d3.max, or pass an array and an accessor. Similar with the range API.
Beautiful work! Love the shining.
Exactly. Thanks bro.
I'm the guy who made this presentation. I see a lot of complaints about the two-dimensional layout of slides, so let me say that this was made for a talk, and I put it online so that my audience could play with it when I gave my talk. Also, during my talk, I did lots of real-time demos on that empty playground page and highlighted a bunch of technical details that are not on the slides. Therefore I agree with those who find it confusing that this is definitely not the best reading material for learning d3, but like @bengillies said, it served my purpose as the presenter.
If you are interested in learning d3, there are a bunch of tutorials on the GitHub wiki: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Tutorials, and I like this one in particular: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/tutorial/circle.html. Not comprehensive, but very clear on what it covers.
Let me also recommend this talk for d3 starters: http://vimeo.com/35005701. It starts with very basic stuffs (JSON), and has lots of live demos. I kinda learned from it when making this presentation.