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National Park Dorling Cartogram

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work with data visu­al­iza­tion and learn­ing how to use the Pro­to­vis JavaScript library. Here is an exam­ple that I have been work­ing on of a Dor­ling Car­togram. This Dor­ling Car­togram encodes the size of the national parks as the size of the cir­cle; and the per­cent­age of atten­dance …

November 19, 2010 – 9:40 am | By j | Posted in MainMenu | Comments (0)

Using YUI Get Module for cross-domain JSON

Intro The Get Util­ity is one of the smaller YUI mod­ules. Despite its size, how and when to use it can be quite com­pli­cated. It is used with css and javascript files to pro­vide pro­gres­sive load­ing of func­tion­al­ity and cross-site data retrieval. Pro­gres­sive load­ing is a tech­nique to load resources as they are needed on …

August 7, 2008 – 8:07 pm | By j | Posted in MainMenu | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

New Garden Photos

The gar­den is look­ing great, I har­vested the first pota­toes this week. It looks like the squash are just a cou­ple weeks away. A pretty lit­tle lady bug

July 6, 2008 – 5:53 pm | By j | Posted in MainMenu | Tagged , | Comments (0)