Jason Davies
Jason Davies is a freelance programmer. His work and interests involve combining visualisation with mathematics, data structures and algorithms. He is a co-author of D3.js, an open-source visualisation library. Jason is also an Apache CouchDB committer.
Jason blogs at jasondavies.com and tweets as @jasondavies
Talks I've Given
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Spherical geometry algorithms in D3.js
Featuring Jason Davies
Algorithms designed to work on a 2D plane don’t necessarily work on the surface of a sphere. In this talk, Jason Davies describes some of the algorithms used by d3.geo for geographic computation.
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Non-Relational Databases and World Domination
Featuring Jason Davies
Apparently NoSQL is all the rage these days, but what does it really mean and what technologies are out there? When to use a non-relational database? How to decide which one to use to achieve world domination? How do I use CouchDB with Ruby on Rails? I'll explore all of these questions and...
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