Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization. Tufte in wikipedia
A typical type of item used by Tufte as Collected/Referenced historic data visualization example:
Minard 1869 — Losses of the French Army in the Russian Campaign
A few years ago, I went to hear Tufte speak in Portland, Oregon — Scott
Tufte is a Yale professor, speaker, author . . collects and promotes data visualizations. He hates PowerPoitnt. Promoter of high-density data written and pictorial. Spurred understanding and electronic creation of “sparklines” (because they look like a little spark. Also called micro-graphs.
“A sparkline is a small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolution.” — Tufte’s words
sparklines
simple sample of sparklines:
javascript
JavaScript (JS) is an interpreted computer programming language. It was originally implemented as part of web browsers so that client-side scripts could interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that was displayed.
IMPORTANT NOTE: javascript IS NOT Java programming language
they just share the name java
jQuery — “write less, do more”
Quick way to leverage many, many lines of already written javascript libraries into useful web applications that are browser tolerant We no longer have to program for a articular browser or version of brwser. Frees developer to cosentrate on content.
jQuery official site
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.
jQuery API Reference multiVersion with Search
jQuery 1.8 API Cheat Sheet — from Future Colors
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The Best !!
jQuery and Sparklines —- Together
I’ll share more with you as I learn about this part myself. — S.KILLIP