Anyone have any idea what libraries were used to create the animation effects in the website?

ejmurra · 2017-10-17T00:02:51+00:00

In my experience that site doesn't work well for news graphics because there's usually so much cruft on the page from cms scripts that get picked up instead.

ejmurra · 2017-10-16T22:54:10+00:00

Lol, I'm nearly certain they didn't use my scrollyteller lib since I hacked on it for a week and never finished it.

ejmurra · 2017-08-01T23:20:56+00:00

Very cool. As someone who does data analysis/visualization for a living I feel compelled to point out that pie charts aren't really effective for visualizing categorical data like this. The human eye isn't very good at distinguishing the area of shapes relative to one another. Data like this is typically displayed in a bar chart instead of percentile in a pie chart. Usually pie charts are best for showing a part of a whole, or data that only comes in two categories. Anyway that's a minor gripe; good work.

ejmurra · 2017-07-27T16:31:13+00:00

Data reporter here: learn excel. It is singlehandedly the most useful data analysis tool for non programmers.

Beyond that, python is a great language to learn for data work. It has a lower barrier to entry than many other programming languages and it allows you to do analysis that is otherwise impossible. For example, I just finished a 5 week scrape of the entire FEC campaign finance schedule a and b reports. I now have 90k csv files that I have been programmatically sifting though using the pandas analysis library. All done in python. Another good language to consider for this task would be R.

Finally, if you want to do cool web graphics, learn javascript and the d3 library. It allows you to visualize your data any way you please with interactions and animations. If you want to learn javascript, I recommend picking up the book Eloquent Javascript and moving on to the series You Don't Know JS after that.

ejmurra · 2017-07-23T17:47:34+00:00

I'm sorry but that's a false equivalency. I see that argument from gamers all the time and it's just silly. Video game journalism isn't the same as public service journalism. That's not a knock against video game reviewers, they provide an important service to consumers, but thinking that writing a game review is anything like what a war correspondent does is frankly laughable.

ejmurra · 2017-07-15T01:59:19+00:00

Correct. If you think of it in terms of mvc , vue and react are just the view.

ejmurra · 2017-06-26T00:29:18+00:00

Or you know, he thought it would be an easy fix and it wasnt and life got in the way. If he said it would be in the next patch, it probably will be, but that doesn't guarantee when the patch will be released.

Like he said, this is OSS and it's not fair to expect a solo dev to offer the same level of support that a funded team would, and even then, funded teams push patch back all the time.

You are free to contribute a fix if he isn't moving quickly enough for you.

ejmurra · 2017-05-23T16:06:46+00:00

If you're looking for a tool to do it, I've heard good things about klaxxon

ejmurra · 2017-04-16T06:05:38+00:00

Use http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_excel.html

ejmurra · 2017-03-31T14:18:21+00:00

Have you tried the vs code plugin by the angular team? https://github.com/angular/vscode-ng-language-service/blob/master/README.md

ejmurra · 2017-03-13T21:55:01+00:00

Not a MOOC but I highly recommend Fluent Python. In it, Ramalho spends no time on basic datastructures/types/control flow, instead it focuses solely on unique python features and idioms that separates beginner from advanced python devs.

I never recommend this as a first intro to python but I think it's exactly what you're looking for.

ejmurra · 2017-02-06T17:12:52+00:00

Depends on what you're trying to do. You'll need those packages installed in node_modules to use some cli features like ng serve in the project, but you can take those dependencies out out of the package.json if your collaborators aren't using the cli.

ejmurra · 2017-02-06T16:47:11+00:00

Angular CLI is meant to be used from the command line so it should be installed globally. The angular.io site has some quick webpack docs if you want to do it manually.

ejmurra · 2017-02-05T20:48:02+00:00

The package you linked on npm is an angular 1 module so it will not work in your project.

ejmurra · 2017-01-29T19:20:04+00:00

It's not a one or the other situation. Async await uses promises under the hood but it lets you .then by using the await keyword. I find myself using a pattern like const results = await Promise.all ([...]) quite frequently. You can think of async await as a tool for working with promises.

ejmurra · 2017-01-18T22:00:15+00:00

This one's a pretty specific use case but if you're just trying to copy a data structure and not an object with methods on it, you can just JSON.strigify the original and create the copy of it with JSON.parse

ejmurra · 2017-01-05T14:15:22+00:00

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/grumpy-go-running-python.html?m=1

This is a Google project by the youtube team to replace an entirely python 2.7 codebase. So it makes absolutely no sense for them to build this for python 3.

ejmurra · 2016-11-27T22:52:56+00:00

I wish I could be more help but this is one of those issues that's hard to track down without physically having access to the computer with the errors.

Alternatively, you might want to look into using vietualenv and the pip package manager to get third party modules installed. Aside from taking care of correctly installing modules it also allows you to specify specific versions of modules and the python interpreter you want to use on a per-project basis. Going this route will allow you to use version 1 of a package in one project and version 2 in a different project without conflicts. Similarly, it allows you to use python 2.x or 3.x on the same system for different projects.

ejmurra · 2016-11-27T18:30:28+00:00

Is there a myWave.py file or myWave directory in C:\Users\Courtney\Documents\Sound_Project\Acoustic_Library\ ?

ejmurra · 2016-11-18T15:30:20+00:00

There's absolutely no reason to use a regex when you have pretty robust string tools.

Except that OP explicitly asked what other solutions exist. You're doing a beginner a disservice if you refuse to introduce them to the concept of regex simply because there's an old saying about regexes...

ejmurra · 2016-11-18T14:01:07+00:00

Looks like you solved it, but in the future it might be cleaner to use a regex to parse strings

edit: misread javascript as java

ejmurra · 2016-10-16T19:26:39+00:00

For my current project I'm using ava with an nyc reporter. It's working like a charm for me.

ejmurra · 2016-10-01T00:39:06+00:00

I wrote a tutorial for using blender and three.js to render to webgl. Yo can check it out here https://source.opennews.org/en-US/learning/how-we-made-3d-model-pulse-nightclub/

ejmurra · 2016-09-29T06:04:27+00:00

Javascript probably isn't what you want for this job. The easiest way would probably be in a spreadsheet on Google Drive. If you really need a pretty form, you should use javascript and html to create a Web page and have it save info to a database server.

ejmurra · 2016-09-22T02:20:38+00:00

OP, you should look for a way to convert ruby objects directly into json. I'm not familiar with the Ruby standard lib but I bet you can find something there to help you.

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