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xkcd graph style in d3 I saw an article on Hacker News about duplicating the xkcd hand-drawn graph style saw I thought I would give it a shot using d3 javascript library.

Use Python + Selenium to Automate Web Timing I’ve been hearing a lot recently about the Navigation Timing spec, which sets a multitude of timing events as javascript properties.

Strata Data Conference Recap 2012 This article is a recap of the Strata 2012 data conference I went to.

Strata 2012 Attendee Analysis The Strata Conference is next week, so I was browsing the attendee directory curious to see who I know is going or looking for interesting companies to meet with.

Running Stats 2011 Being the data minded guy that I am, here are stats and numbers around my running in 2011.

Infographic design, give tables a chance There has been a recent backlash against infographics lately, justified as this graphic illustrates.

Taste of R: An Introduction Introduction R is a statistical programming language and environment, it is open source and available on most platforms.

World Revolutions data visualization The recent events in Tunisia and Egypt got me thinking about revolutions across history.

Strata Data Conference Recap This last week I attended the inaugural Strata Conference, a conference titled “making data work”.

How does Apple do it?

Why Microsoft OneNote kicks so much note taking ass!

Strange red light from my MacBook Pro A very strange thing just occurred with my MacBook Pro.

Goodbye XML, Hello JSON About four years ago I wrote an article on the limitations of XML, I’m here to back that up with some numbers.

Distributed Social Networks As the NY Times article today shows, social networks are sprouting up everywhere.

Cicero’s Rules for Good Conversation In a futile attempt to catch up on my ever growing pile of magazines, I came across a good article in the Economist about the art of conversation.

MySpace architecture and scalability Baseline magazine has a good article on Inside MySpace.

Computers, we have a long way to go After trying to remember the HTML character code for the fancy quote mark for the 1,00th time, I realized we have a long way to go with interactions with computers.

One Gigabyte Here’s an interesting observation from my father: About 1972 or so, I worked for a company called ISS, which built disc drives.

Are you an artist?

Prime Factors In number theory, the prime factors of a positive integer are the prime numbers that divide into that integer exactly, without leaving a remainder.

Brain Teaser - Billiard Balls Suppose you had eight apparently identical billiard balls, but one of the eight is slightly heavier than the others.

What should I do with my life?

Google Billboard Problems A mysterious billboard appeared on 101-southbound which I passed each day to work.

Firefox and Safari Compared There are a few compelling reasons I want to use Safari as my primary browser.

Dead Man Walking: Sun Microsystems?

XML: Scalability Limitations XML is not the answer to all data storage and transport problems that many claim it to be.

Java Matrix Calculator Download MatrixCalculator.java ver. 1.6 MatrixCalculator-1.5.java ver. 1.5 Change Log: Version 1.6 - June 30, 2005 Contributions from Pierre Sequin.

Prime Numbers An integer is prime if its only positive divisors are itself and one.

Krypto Game Analysis Krypto is a game which five cards are put down each with a number on it from one to twenty-five.

404 - Page Not Found This site has been around 25 years, so a page gets moved every now and then.

Solve a System of Linear Equations The Mathematics Behind It The above solves a system of 3 equations and 3 unknowns, for example : x + 2y + 3z = 9 2x - y + z = 8 3x - z = 3 This would be entered into the matrix above as : 1 2

Linear Algebra Math Here are some of the definitions and examples used in Linear Algebra and specifically the linear algebra calculators available.

Javascript Linear Algebra Calculator Resoures Read about Linear Algebra Mathematics for some mathematical explanations on how the matrices are calculated and definitions For larger matrices and Java source code, see Java Matrix Calculator?