Visualization: Post grouped by years - D3 - v3

 June 3, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  224 words  |  Dheepak

This is a follow up to last month’s post on same name. What’s new? Tooltip - Earlier, we were employing the browser’s native tooltip. With this update we have customised tooltip with publish date and categories along with the title of post. Transitions - On hovering the circles turns green and tooltip pops up. .tooltip { position: absolute; font-family: monospace; pointer-events: none; background: silver; color: black; /* width: 400px; */ text-align: left; border-radius: 6px; padding: 5px 5px; left: 50%; margin-left: -60px; z-index: 1; } .
d3  dataViz 

Visualization: Post grouped by years - D3 - v2

 May 18, 2023  |  1 minutes  |  188 words  |  Dheepak

This is a follow up to last month’s post on same name. There are few changes made to the chart. Today marker: Instead of drawing a full line for the current year, we are allowing the line to grow with passing day. This is a major change. Transition: The trasnition effects are the major change here. Ironically, the amount of code change is minimum - tbh addition of 2 lines is all that’s needed.
d3  dataViz 

Visualization: Post grouped by years - D3

 April 24, 2023  |  1 minutes  |  80 words  |  Dheepak

This is an attempt to recreate the earlier created blog post through D3js. I’m more of backend developer, working predominantly in Python + SQL. But, trying out JS is long time wish, which got fufilled through a Udemy course and some good imspiration. The visuals can be improved vastly and can add few more options. But this post is to show the progress. Also, this is an attempt to conform that D3JS output can be hosted on our static site.
d3  dataViz 

Visualization: Post grouped by years

 April 8, 2023  |  5 minutes  |  1018 words  |  Dheepak

Once in a while we stumble into something interesting while we are not looking for it. This is a post on how I came across a chart while going through an online course, the experience in replicating the chart, the lessons I learnt. The instructor of the course - Course: Data Visualization Fundamentals and Best Practices by ObservableHQ. While going through his website I found this interesting chart - Blog Calendar.
Analysis  dataViz 

Multiple roles of a man

Which one survives, dies or thrives

 March 5, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  709 words  |  Dheepak

The 30s are tricky period. Till 20s you can survive with a student or young earner tag. In the late 20s, you experience what the freedom is. And, when you start feeling you can do whatever you can and reach wherever you want to in life. Now you’re in your 30s and most likely you got punched at your face. Why 30s are so tough A simple answer is roles that each person plays.
Dimensions  life 

API, Configurations & Database operation

Some helpful accessories

 February 12, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  233 words  |  Dheepak

Right now the project focuses on creating dashboard for Mutual funds, and gradually adding other investement vehicles viz stocks, PPF, and EPF. Fetching NAVs To track the mutual funds, we come across an API by Yuvaraj Loganathan - MFAPI. Thank you, Yuvaraj. The API gets updated on daily basis and free to access (as in free beer). For our project, which is not intended for any financial gain, this api is the right fit.
mfapi  toml  draw.io 

Osmosis IRL

 February 5, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  692 words  |  Dheepak

Osmosis Osmosis is term all of us come across during our schooling days. In biology, osmosis is the movement of water molecules from a solution with a high concentration of water molecules to a solution with a lower concentration of water molecules, through a cell’s partially permeable membrane. Water purification through reverse osmosis is one of the popular application in our day to day life. Do we see anything similar to Osmosis in real life?
migration 

Project Update - 3

Some helpful accessories - tech specs

 January 29, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  619 words  |  Dheepak

This is continuation in the series about our side project. This post is a follow up to the pervious post on various tools used to build the process of building the application The Environment Core language used in our project is Python. Python is used to fetch details from API calls, cleaning the API return value, and also writing it into DB. Even though the language is very popular and user ranges from amateurs to big corporations, it undergoes development.
specifications  code snippets 

Project Update - 2

Some helpful accessories

 January 22, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  522 words  |  Dheepak

This is a continuation to previous post on our new side project. Instead of building a spaghetti code that just works, we are approaching the entire process through the industry practise. For example, the working components are modularised for easier maintenance. These individual modules are built on TDD approach, testing with every step of our development. The test results are passed through coverage to understand how much code is covered under our testing process.
TDD  Coverage  Documentation 

Personal help/maid affordability - a social indicator?

Reflects the state of the society?

 January 15, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  369 words  |  Dheepak

One of the major difference between developed and developing nation is the way we treat the labours. Usually when a nation grows it concentrates on creating wealth. The wealth, once gets generated it tends to flock together and the rich gets super rich at the cost of vulnerable populous. Once this gap gets too large, the society becomes unstable. The struggle between the haves and have-nots are the root cause of most of the civil unrest, gradually turning into civil war, if the gap is left unchecked.
Social structure  Economic indicator