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vlandham··on Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript
I'd like to know how the team made that amazing SVG-based animated banner image. That alone looks amazing!
vlandham··on Gestalt Principles for Data Visualization
Parts 2 and 3 are up as well - though they deserve their own separate mentions.

http://emeeks.github.io/gestaltdataviz/section2.html

http://emeeks.github.io/gestaltdataviz/section3.html

vlandham··on Finding the perfect house using open data
Started a similar repo for Seattle, WA data here: https://github.com/vlandham/seattle-atlas
vlandham··on Python for Finance
I'm pretty excited about QuantStart's up-coming book+code:

http://www.quantstart.com/successful-algorithmic-trading-ebo...

It is in a similar vein: python + finance. Based on the depth of the blog posts, I expect a lot of good content.

vlandham··on Scaling Viki
The Makefile and pdf template for this and the redis book, I think are great, approachable, examples of using pandoc to generate a multi-format book.

Makefile: https://github.com/karlseguin/scaling-viki/blob/master/Makef...

template: https://github.com/karlseguin/scaling-viki/blob/master/commo...

vlandham··on Shortcuts to Move Faster in Bash Command Line
Very similar list here:

http://www.skorks.com/2009/09/bash-shortcuts-for-maximum-pro...

which includes some other nice shortcuts - like ctrl + xx

vlandham··on Build An Animated Chart In 19 Lines Of Code With d3.js
Also plenty of really good beginner d3 tutorials from Scott Murray:

http://alignedleft.com/tutorials/

vlandham··on Hastie, a static site generator in Go
bummer. That's the name i used for my Jekyll 'helper' tool for creating reports

https://github.com/vlandham/hastie