Since Pinterest just completed a 200 million funding at 2.5 billion dollar valuation, I wanted to write something about the service. Personally, I do use the website and I like it, it’s a place where I find a lot of interesting history photos, travel pics, and infographics. Many of these images come from Tumblr, Flickr, and other social sites but I still like the organization and features that Pinterest provides.
There is even some design inspiration but you will not find many development and programming boards. This makes sense, but just for fun, here are 20 Pinterest Boards on WordPress, jQuery, PHP, CSS, ruby, mobile and other aspects of web development:
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Here is an update with over 2000 D3js examples.
One of the best things that I like about D3 is the ridiculous amount of awesome demos available online and last night I have stumbled on an excel sheet with 1,134 examples of data visualizations with D3. If you are just starting out with D3 you will appreciate the well organized API docs and really great tutorials and cheat sheets but there is nothing like seeing a demo with code. There are many D3 examples online but I have not seen such a big list published anywhere so I am dropping it below, with thumbnail images of each D3 demo on link mouseover. Here are 1,134 D3 examples:
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Update: I highly recommend checking out this responsive D3.js framework with pan and zoom limits and the new D3 World Map Template.
D3 has a lot of built in support (a powerful geographic projection system) for creating Maps from GeoJSON. If you have never used D3 for maps, I think you should take a look at this D3 Map Tutorial. It covers the essentials of making a map with D3 and TopoJSON, which I will use below in more advanced examples. TopoJson encodes topology and eliminates redundancy, resulting in a much smaller file and the GeoJSON to TopoJSON converter is built with NodeJS.
Thus, I encourage you all to start using TopoJSON and below, I will go over a couple examples of building a D3 World Map with colors, tooltips, different zooming options, plotting points from geo coordinates, and listening to click events to load new maps. I will also use Mike Bostock’s queue script to load the data asynchronously.
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