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- May 01 2015
Lessons from Scrum
There is a notion in the software industry that teams are either “doing Scrum” or not. That is true in some cases, but the majority of teams are using a hybrid of methodologies based on their experiences and situation. Some of this apparent isolation is linguistic: Scrum has its own terminology for some notions that […]
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- Apr 29 2015
Vintage Visualization Restoration – Bump Chart Edition
As a side project, I decided to reimplement a classic bump chart visualization using JavaScript and D3. Check it out here. My Introduction to the Bump Chart This bizarre but majestic visualization was originally created for the 1890 US Statistical Atlas by the wonderfully talented Henry Gannett. It provides a look at the most populated […]
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- data visualization,
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- Apr 24 2015
Good-bye Ashley
Our friend and colleague in Open Web education, Ashley Williams, has left Bocoup. We first met Ashley when she was teaching for the Flatiron School, and we were impressed with the passion she has for programming and computer science education. While at Bocoup, she worked on a number of different projects including several training classes, […]
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- Apr 24 2015
Announcing Johnny-Five.io
After three years of community development, Johnny-Five has its own home on the web – we’re thrilled to announce johnny-five.io! The new site combines content from the repo, the wiki, tutorials from the Bocoup blog and several third-party websites into a single, easily-discoverable source: If you want to find the API documentation, that’s right here. […]
Continue ReadingAnnouncing Johnny-Five.io - Apr 23 2015
Introducing Stereotropes
The Data Visualization Team here at Bocoup has been hard at work building an exciting interactive experience. Today we are really thrilled to share our work with you. Please welcome to the world Stereotropes: Stereotropes is an interactive visualization experiment, exploring a set of “tropes” authored and tracked by a community of contributors on TV […]
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- data visualization,
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- Apr 01 2015
Pushing NodeBots Into The Future with Tessel 2
On March 5, 2015, Technical Machine announced the next generation of their Tessel platform: the Tessel 2. Additionally, Technical Machine announced a prototype-to-production service for products that are built with the Tessel 2. These are both very exciting developments for the future of NodeBots. According to Technical Machine, the Tessel 2 builds on and grows […]
Continue ReadingPushing NodeBots Into The Future with Tessel 2 - Mar 31 2015
Welcome Christine An
Today, we’ve got An Announcement: Christine An has joined Bocoup as our Communications Manager! Christine (or just Stine) comes on board from the Public Education Leadership Project at the Harvard Business School. She’s one of the organizers of a monthly salon on Tech & Ethics at the EMW Bookstore, and is an Assistant Editor of […]
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- Mar 25 2015
Introducing Learn JS Data
Learn JS Data is a new guide introducing JavaScript as a language that can support data processing and manipulation. While there are many great tutorials and examples for doing data processing in other languages, there appeared to be a deficiency of resources on data munging in JavaScript. And so, we have started to fill in […]
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- data visualization,
- tutorial
- Mar 12 2015
Practicing the new world language skills
Amerigo Vespucci once called the Americas the “New World”, as they weren’t known to our ancestors. That’s the same impression I’ve had of the forthcoming ES2015 (ECMA-262, 6th Ed.) specification and the newly evolved landscape that it creates. There are a lot of things to come and they’ll remain only examples until we really use […]
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- Mar 12 2015
Praticando as linguagens do novo mundo
Américo Vespúcio uma vez chamou a América de “Novo Mundo” quando ela ainda não era conhecida pelos nossos ancestrais. Essa é a mesma impressão que tive com a especificação do ES2015 (ECMA-262, 6th Ed.) e o novo panorama que ela traz. Tem várias coisas por vir e elas vão se manter apenas como exemplos até […]
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