Category: HTML5
Everything filed under HTML5.
Mapping Power Outages in Maine Dynamically with Shiny/R
I decided to forego the D3 map mentioned in the previous post in favor of a Shiny one since I had 90% of the mapping code…
Preparing For The February 2014 Book Launch
We setup a live Amazon "sales rank" tracker over at the book's web site and provided some Python and JavaScript code to show folks how use the AWS API in conjunction with the dygraphs charting library to do the same for any ISBN. In the…
Visual Anatomy Of R Packages Used in Data Driven Security
Since @jayjacobs & I are down to the home stretch on Data Driven Security , I thought it would be interesting to do some post-writing pseudo-analyses of the book itself. I won't have exact page or word counts for a bit, but I wanted to see…
Visualizing "ObamaCare-related" Job Cuts
The spreadsheet is organized by date and lists each state where the jobs were impacted along with the employer , employer type (public/private), reason and number of jobs impacted (if available). They also have links to news stories…
Easier HTML Table-scraping For Scripts With Google Drive
We had our first, real, snowfall of the season in Maine today and that usually means school delays/closings. Our "local" station – @WCHS6 – has a Storm Center Closings page as well as an SMS notification service. I decided this morning…
Election Trackers Moved From Flash to HTML5
For those inclined to click, I was interviewed by Fahmida Rashid (@fahmiwrite) over at Sourceforge's HTML5 center a few weeks ago (right after the elections) due to my tweets on the use of HTML5 tech over Flash. Here's one of…
Still Not A Fan Of Paywalls
As you can probably tell from a previous post , I'm not a fan of paywalls—especially poorly implemented ones. Clicking on a link in an RSS feed post and having it land on a page, only to have it smothered in an HTML layer or — in the…
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-09
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-09 — rud.is blog archive
Quick Hits :: 2011-01-07
Interesting points/counterpoints on the efficacy of Node.js being tied so closely to the V8 javascript engine: NodeJS: To V8 or not to V8 [bruno fernandez-ruiz] On Bruno’s Concern About the Current Coupling of node.js and V8 [jason @…