Learning How to Build a Web Application — Medium: "Back in my undergraduate days, I did a LOT of mathematical proofs (e.g. Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, and my all time favorite/nightmare Measure Theory). In addition to learning how to think, I also learned to recognize many, and I mean many Greek and Hebrew letters.
However, as I took on more empirical work in graduate school, I realized that data visualization was often far more effective in communication than LaTeX alone. From crafting what information to convey to my readers, I learned that the art of presentation is far more important than I originally thought.
Luckily, I have always been a rather visual learner, so when it comes to beautiful data visualizations, they always grabbed my attentions and propel me to learn more. I began to wonder how people published their beautiful works on web; I became a frequent visitor of Nathan Yau’s FlowingData blog; And I am continued to be in awe when discovering visualizations like this, this, and this.
After many moments of envy, I couldn’t resist but to learn how to create them myself. This post is about the journey that I took to piece the puzzles together. By presenting my lessons learned here, I hope it can inspire all those who are interested in learning web development and data visualization to get started!"
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