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A brief look at Deno – the brand new javascript runtime.

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj · June 5, 2020June 5, 2020

Internet has been buzzing with news about the new kid on the block – Deno 1.0.0, a secure runtime for javascript and typescript which was released last month. Its claim to fame is that the lead for the project is Ryan Dahl – the creator of node.js. The project is interesting in a lot of …

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Is Java or Python the Best Programming Language for Android Apps? [guest post]

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj · May 25, 2018June 9, 2020

The following guest post comes courtesy of Michael Kordvani from fueled.nyc *** Though Objective-C, Swift, Java, Python and HTML5 are widely regarded as the most popular mobile app programming languages, when it comes to programming languages for Android apps, it is Java and Python that are the rulers of them all. But, perhaps you are …

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A Bloomberg like ‘Terminal’ for open data?

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj · May 21, 2018June 3, 2020

Recently I had a tour of to Bloomberg HQ in London from my friend who started a job there. It was the first time I actually saw Bloomberg terminal and had a go at it. There are three things I found very fascinating and which Bloomberg terminal has done right. The User Interface. Data completeness. …

Importance of transitions in interactive visualisations.

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj · January 14, 2018June 2, 2020

I am a very big fan of transitions when presenting complex data with interactive visualisations. I believe that transitions play an important role in building a continuous narrative in audience’s mind when they are trying to understand connected series of information. To be clear, I am talking specifically about transition of data between the stages …