I'd like to know how the team made that amazing SVG-based animated banner image. That alone looks amazing!
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vlandham
Parts 2 and 3 are up as well - though they deserve their own separate mentions.
Started a similar repo for Seattle, WA data here: https://github.com/vlandham/seattle-atlas
I'm pretty excited about QuantStart's up-coming book+code:
http://www.quantstart.com/successful-algorithmic-trading-ebo...
It is in a similar vein: python + finance. Based on the depth of the blog posts, I expect a lot of good content.
The Makefile and pdf template for this and the redis book, I think are great, approachable, examples of using pandoc to generate a multi-format book.
Makefile: https://github.com/karlseguin/scaling-viki/blob/master/Makef...
template: https://github.com/karlseguin/scaling-viki/blob/master/commo...
Very similar list here:
http://www.skorks.com/2009/09/bash-shortcuts-for-maximum-pro...
which includes some other nice shortcuts - like ctrl + xx
Also plenty of really good beginner d3 tutorials from Scott Murray:
bummer. That's the name i used for my Jekyll 'helper' tool for creating reports