tinsel

This is the gentlest introduction to d3 out there.

Run through the book and you will have a solid foundation to start playing around on your own for basic visualizations and charts.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do

This was also posted on HN a while back:

http://code.hazzens.com/d3tut/lesson_0.html

d3 is not dependant on jquery and covers a lot of the same basic DOM manipulation. You also need to learn some super basic css to theme things.

MongoDB/NoSQL is not for the type of analysis mentioned in the article and is NOT a replacement for a spreadsheet.

Out of all the nosql options, why pick the one with the most broken default configuration? People complain that MongoDB is has a bad rep when used for things its not meant to, and then its constantly offered as solution.

how do you change the motd, or remove it entirely?

its annoying having

Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell Type help for instructions on how to use fish

come up all the time

lets discuss ember data issues again. this time we'll have a breakthrough.