May 2018 D3.js meetup: "American Politics in Pictograms" & "Intro to Observable"

Happy spring everybody! Two exciting talks this month:

#1: American Politics in Pictograms, by Gabriel Gianordoli

This will be an in-depth analysis of the design process for the 2 news pieces on the divisions inside the Republican and Democratic parties. I will show early sketches, static mockups, interactive prototypes and coding implementation. On the technical side, I will share some notes on working with external SVG’s in D3, defining data structures with Flow Type, and making charts in CSS.

Bio: Gabriel is an award-winning information designer. He currently works as Senior Interaction Design Editor for WSJ’s Graphics Team, producing visual news stories. He has worked at data-focused studio The Office for Creative Research, designed stories for several publications in Brazil, and taught data visualization at Parsons School of Design and NYU.

#2: Intro to Observable, by Amit Schechter

Observable Notebooks are interactive, editable documents defined by code. Chances are that you’ve heard about Observable, in part because it's the latest project from D3's Mike Bostock, but mainly because it's a great new way to code and share ideas — and especially thanks its growing community-created repository of fascinating notebooks. But, perhaps you haven't had a chance to check out Observable yet, or maybe you've been delaying it, thinking that it takes much time and effort to get started (it doesn't). In this talk we'll take a close look at Observable and some of its great example notebooks. We'll discuss the many pros and few cons of using it and how to easily start creating interactive notebooks.

About the speaker: Amit Schechter is a front-end developer and designer specializing in data visualization and analysis. Amit co-organizes the NYC D3 meetup and until recently was Tech Director and co-founder of TWO-N inc.