D3Viz: Chiasm and React

Hi everyone,

We are back with another meetup. This time around we'll have two talks.

Topics:

1. The Chiasm Data Visualization Platform by Curran Kelleher

Chiasm is a browser based runtime environment and plugin architecture for interactive visualizations. It allows plugins for data access, data transformation, and interactive visualization to be loaded and configured dynamically.

https://github.com/curran/chiasm/

About the speaker: Curran Kelleher is a Software Engineer at Alpine Data Labs, a startup focusing on Big Data analytics based in San Francisco, USA. Before joining Alpine, Curran completed his Ph. D. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts, focusing on data visualization. He is currently working on an Open Source data visualization platform called Chiasm.

Here is an "Introduction to D3" video tutorial by Curran:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jvoTV54nXw

2. React + d3 = Awesome Data Visualization by Ilango Rajagopal

D3's approach to data visualization fits well with the React way of building UI components. In this talk we'll see how to build re-usable visualization components by combining the power of d3 with the flexibility of React.

About the speaker: Ilango Rajagopal is a Frontend Developer at Infratab, a company developing solutions for handling temperature sensitive products. He completed his Bachelor's in Electronics and has worked as an Embedded Developer. He is currently working with BackboneJS and D3JS.

Venue: Jaaga Startup

Address: 5/1, Penthouse 1, Rich Homes Apartment, Richmond Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560025