DHSI - Javascript & D3 Day 1
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Notes
The pizza problem about human limitation in understanding area. Look for more.
CSMT and dh student topic modeling book reviews visualized as forced-irected graphs
D3 is moving towards nodejs. The class doesn’t go into the nodejs changes. Nodejs works server-side instead of local browser-side.
Intro metaphor
What is a noun? Not a trick question.
First answer was a person, place, or thing. Second answer was a word that names something. Third answer was a word for identity. Also referential, points to something, and a concept. Last is that it’s static.
What is an adjective?
Has caracteristics, describes, refinement, dependent, aesthetics.
What is a verb?
Action, command, time, movement, transition, interaction, potential, cause and effect.
Nouns are HTML, SVG, because they’re containers.
Adjectives are attributes. They describe the nouns of markup languages. Javascript is the verb. It moves, defines the behavior, slide, appear and disappear. D3 is a library of javascript.
Syntax differences between HTML and CSS. …