Explorable explanations

This is a cool post on "the rise of explorable explanations". Very interesting collection of stuff there. On that note, a little musing about combining R and D3.

Replacing d3

Angular+pure SVG. For performance reasons? I don't know. Still cool.

D3.js

I always love anything about d3.js, so October saw three links:

• Another basic tutorial
• Raw is a webapp drawing graphics using d3.js
• And here's a huge list of examples. (1897 of them as of today.)

Selections in D3

D3 is cool, and apparently has selections. (You can tell I've spent a lot of time with it...)

Using D3 to produce SVG

More graphics stuff.

Tangle.js

I'm just fascinated by interactive documents and how they compare to Excel and that sort of interactive dataflow management tools; Tangle.js has been around for a while but it's still incredibly cool. [hnn]

Vega: DDD Visualization Grammar

Now this is a neat idea.

Document automation

Eesh.  I've been wanting to get into document automation since I discovered that Word can be automated (um, you don't want to know how long that is) and so now, as I'm finally taking the plunge and automating my invoicing process, I'm looking at it in more detail.

There are a lot of document automation packages out there.

• Wikipedia page
• MSDN article on document automation in Word.  Still pretty much Win32::Word::Declarative's domain.  (It also suggests "document assembly" as an additional keyword.)
• There are scads of commercial products for automation of documents in business. [1] is just one example.
• The FormTool apparently aids document preparers in automating their own workflow on a much smaller-scale basis.  The Pro version has more sophisticated language models that look pretty interesting.  Worth looking at.  Worth redoing, actually.

El patrón de los números primos

Excellent use of data-driven documents to illustrate one way of finding primes.