d3 fast and slow

Loggly has graciously offered to host our next meetup (with food and drink!) as well as a fun contest!

We will have two exciting talks:
Daniel Roesler - d3 on cheap smartphones
Daniel got his hands on the new Firefox OS phone and has been looking at d3 related performance on cheap mobile hardware. He has some interesting findings to share with us!

Victor Powell - DZ: dealing with 3d data in d3
Victor has been developing a new library for dealing with 3d data in a d3 like way: https://github.com/vicapow/dz
with some sweet examples:
http://vicapow.github.io/dz/example/line-plot.html
http://vicapow.github.io/dz/example/dna.html
He will share his motivations and ideas behind the library!

Schedule

6:30 - Doors open

7:00 - Contest demos and results

7:30 - Talks

8:30 - Socializing

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Loggly would like to sponsor a quick visualization contest across either time series or faceted data sets.

RULES & CRITERIA

Your visualization should fit in a 900x500px window, preferably submitted on http://bl.ocks.org (the way the d3 community shares visualizations)

Use any visualization method you like. Animation and interactivity are encouraged, and the bigger of the data set, the better.

Contact nick@loggly.com for any questions or to submit entries. Here are a few resources that you might utilize to help generate your data visualizations:

SAMPLE DATA

Time Series Data Sets:
http://www.monitorware.com/en/logsamples/download/apache-samples.rar

http://s3.amazonaws.com/hw-sandbox/tutorial12/serverfiles.zip
Faceted:
• http://www.json-generator.com/
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Entrants will be presented on December 12th, at the beginning of the talk and take a vote to see who wins the following:

FIRST PLACE

• Data Visualization with D3.js by Swizec Teller

• Data Visualization with D3 Cookbook by Nick Qi Zhu

• $50 Amazon Gift Card

RUNNER UP

• Data Visualization with D3.js by Swizec Teller
• $25 Amazon Gift Card

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Contact nick@loggly.com for further details or to submit entries.

IF YOU ARE ON THE WAITINGLIST SUBMITTING A VISUALIZATION WILL GET YOU IN!