Interesting Snippets from 2014-09-02

• Chartist - Simple responsive charts

  The following facts should give you an overview why to choose Chartists as your front-end chart generator: Simple handling while using convention over configuration Great flexibility while using clear separation of concerns (Style with CSS & control with JS) Usage of SVG (Yes! SVG is the future of illustration in web!) Fully responsive and DPI independent Responsive configuration with media queries Fully built and customizable with SASS

• C3.js | D3-based reusable chart library

  C3 makes it easy to generate D3-based charts by wrapping the code required to construct the entire chart. We don't need to write D3 code any more.

• rxin/db-readings · GitHub

  A list of papers essential to understanding databases and building new data systems.

• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

  his book will introduce you to D3, a JavaScript-based tool for loading data into a web page and generating visuals from that data. I assume that you have little or no programming experience. Or, perhaps you have programmed before, but D3 and data visualization are bringing you to JavaScript for the first time, and you’ve heard bad things about it. Well, JavaScript is a little weird, but it’s not as bad as you’ve heard, and everything is going to be all right. Please sit down and make yourself comfortable.

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