As the three of us embarked on this new data-mining project, we were the data scientist, the manager and the developer, who knew nothing about visualizations. We didn’t even want to do any visuals at first. Then someone stumbled across the New York Times Obama Budget visual and the wheels started spinning. Pretty soon we […]

Figure a blog without pictures or conversations is just boring, so, here it is. Lately, I have been dealing a lot with data visualization. This was a brand new area for me and while we do use F# for data extraction, all of the front end is done using d3, an amazing toolkit by Mike […]

Last Thursday, I gave a talk at the Bay.NET user group in Berkeley, introducing F# to C# developers. First off, I have to thank everybody who came – you guys were great, lots of good questions, nice energy, I had a fantastic time! My goal was to highlight why I think F# is awesome, and of course this had to include a Type Provider demo, one of the most amazing features of F# 3.0. So I went ahead, and demoed Tomas Petricek’s World Bank Type Provider, and Howard Mansell’s R Type Provider – together. The prom[...]

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