D3 and Google Maps

Today I finished the first draft of a terrain google map with a D3 overlay to show recent sightings of Black-chinned and Ruby-throated hummingbirds from the eBird API (Cornell University). I like this version compared to the previous D3 only version as the terrain map shows us some interesting information to consider.  In the previous … Read more D3 and Google Maps

IANA logo

One of the projects I am starting with a friend is to develop an interactive quiz generator focused on the needs of physics teachers.  We are doing this under the umbrella of an organization called IANA (more on that later).  Recently I produced a high resolution, transparent background .png of a Latex generated logo created by … Read more IANA logo

Bird Migration

Starting a new project, one I wish I had thought of in the late winter.  My plan is to capture data every two weeks from eBird API and store as local json files so that I can have a D3 map with a slider that shows where sightings of a bird species occurred through the … Read more Bird Migration

Biotic Index Updated!

May 25, 2016: Today I updated the Biotic Index page.  Previously, I had used KineticJs, but that library is no longer maintained and I noticed a significant reduction in functionality with the drag animation.  So, I substituted that for the “draggable” feature in JQuery UI.  So much simpler and better performing too. I am about to … Read more Biotic Index Updated!