Dashboard apps are wonderful tools, and charts that update in response to streaming data are a big part of their utility. This post is a walk-through of how to create charts of streaming data using Plotly.js and Angular. If you learn better from jumping straight to the repo, here you…

I recently worked on a frontend application that required rendering markdown documents into Angular Components. The app used was used by two kinds of users. One group worked with a database of models used in several applications. …

Take the opportunity sometime to ask a programmer “What’s your favorite bug ever?” You’re likely to get some great stories. They might be tales of misfortune in which some villain got their comeuppance. They could be hard to solve puzzles that led to a personal sense of victory. …

Angular Material provides copious examples for their components. In my opinion, this is one of the strongest endorsements for the library. The DataTable component has among the most examples, but is a bit lacking on adding drag-and-drop, particularly when it comes to making it a beautiful experience. This post will…

Adding interactivity to data visualizations can contribute to better understanding of data. One of my favorite interactions is to use hover events to highlight data in another plots. Plotly.js …

I downloaded a year’s worth of tournament chess games to analyze piece positions (full write-up of how here). The first question I had is, for a random game, at a random point in the game, what is the probability that any given piece is on a particular square of the board? There’s lots to explore, but one of the first things that jumped out to me was the asymmetry between king and queen sides. What do you see?

When playing chess, I find my games falling into similar positions. This is by design. Focusing exclusively on a couple of different openings helps improve your games, precisely because you’re seeing the same positions over and over. But I’ve been curious, more generally, what constitutes common and uncommon positions for…

I have a couple of projects in mind for analysis of chess game positions. They all require collecting a large number of chess games into structured data. This Week in Chess provides records of thousands of games each week. …