Chart Transitions with React and D3 4.0
Authored by Steven HallI have been working in my spare time on ideas for using the new separate D3 4.0 modules with React. Below I present some examples of using the enter, update and exit pattern to...
View ArticleMerge Sort Implementation in ES6 JavaScript
Needed a good implementation of a merge sort algorithm in JavaScript and found that the ones available out there are not great in terms of optimizing for performance. Also could not find one that used...
View ArticleForce Bubble Charts in D3
Authored by Steven HallUsing the force layout in D3 to produce a bubble chart for categorical data can be a good choice for communicating the message your data has to offer and has the side benefit...
View ArticleSetting Up Neo4j 2.0 on an Ubuntu Server
Authored by Steven HallNeo4j 2.0 is an awesome release of Neo Technology's great graph database. There are some significant new features and some changes to the data model that, I think, make it more...
View ArticleFractals in D3: Fractal Ferns
Authored by Steven HallThis week I have been busy exploring the generation of fractals using D3. The image above is a "fractal fern" composed of 150,000 tiny SVG circles generated using some...
View ArticleFractals in D3: Dragon Curves
Authored by Steven HallThis week I am continuing to experiment with rendering fractals in D3. In this post we're looking at examples of generating some really cool fractals called dragon curves (also...
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