The minimum, the maximum, and the typos therein
Blake Tregre found a typo on page 55 of Visualizing Data in one of the comments: // Set the value of m arbitrarily high, so the first value // found will be set as the maximum. float m = MIN_FLOAT;...
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Li’l Endian
Chapters 9 and 10 (acquire and parse) are secretly my favorite parts of Visualizing Data. They’re a grab bag of useful bits based on many years of working with information (previous headaches)… the...
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Kottke and Freakonomics were kind enough to link over here, which has brought more queries about salaryper. Rather than piling onto the original web page, I’ll add updates to this section of the site....
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Unicode, character encodings, and the declining dominance of Western European...
Computers know nothing but numbers. As humans we have varying levels of skill in using numbers, but most of the time we’re communicating with words and phrases. So in the early days of computing, the...
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