Chuck Grimmett


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Year: 2016

  • Book Review Jekyll Collection Template


    Book Review Jekyll Collection Template

    A book review template for Jekyll sites using Collections. Complete with a star rating system.

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  • Cook Like Chuck 2016 Gift Guide


    Cook Like Chuck 2016 Gift Guide

    Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are quickly approaching. Here are some gift ideas for your friends and family who like to spend time in the kitchen. Everything is under $50, half of the list is under $30. I approve of it all.

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  • Our Inflated Thanksgiving, 2016 Edition

    Our Inflated Thanksgiving, 2016 Edition

    It’s not just the balloons at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that are inflated. Each year the American Farm Bureau Federation collects an informal price survey for a typical Thanksgiving dinner. The shopping list has remained the same for the past 31 years: turkey, bread stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls with butter, peas, cranberries, a veggie…

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  • Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings 852 and 853 with D3.js


    Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings 852 and 853 with D3.js

    Learning all about D3.js’s area and sorting functions to implement Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings 852 and 853 with random generation.

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  • Make Your Own Sol LeWitt 614!


    Make Your Own Sol LeWitt 614!

    I took my implementation of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 614 using a D3.js Treemap and made it possible for users to change the number of rectangles and the width of the bands. Now you can make your own!

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  • Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 614 with D3.js Treemap and Randomization


    Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 614 with D3.js Treemap and Randomization

    Implementing Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 614 with D3.js Treemap and randomization.

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  • Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 289 with D3.js Transitions


    Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 289 with D3.js Transitions

    Implementing Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 289 with D3.js transitions, randomization, and responsiveness.

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  • Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 86 with D3.js Transitions


    Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 86 with D3.js Transitions

    Implementing Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 86 with D3.js transitions, randomization, and responsiveness.

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  • Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 87 with D3.js Transitions


    Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 87 with D3.js Transitions

    Exploring Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 87 with D3.js transitions.

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  • Praxis Data Workshop – Telling a Stronger Story with Data Visualization


    Praxis Data Workshop – Telling a Stronger Story with Data Visualization

    The video, slides, and notes from my Praxis workshop on data analysis and visualization.

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  • Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 391 with D3.js


    Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 391 with D3.js

    Design decisions and notes I made in implementing Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 391 with D3.js.

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  • Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 11 with D3.js


    Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 11 with D3.js

    Design decisions and notes I made while implementing Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 11 with D3.js.

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  • Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 56 with D3.js


    Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 56 with D3.js

    My first attempt at implementing Sol LeWitt’s work on the web! Here are the design decisions and notes I made while implementing Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 56 with D3.js.

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  • Category Filtering with Isotope in Jekyll


    Category Filtering with Isotope in Jekyll

    This is the most recent addition to my Jekyll Tools repository on GitHub. Isotope is a popular jQuery filtering and sorting plugin. I combined it with Liquid to generate category filtering in Jekyll.

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  • Point Reyes National Seashore


    Point Reyes National Seashore

    Amanda and I spent a few days in California wine country at the end of March before we drove over to Yosemite. We were kind of disappointed in wine country because we expected to learn a lot more than any of the tour guides seemed to be interested in teaching us, so we took one…

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  • Jekyll 3.2 Undefined Method Downcase Error


    Jekyll 3.2 Undefined Method Downcase Error

    Here is how to get rid of a pesky Jekyll undefined method downcase error.

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  • Comparing Sheet of Data in Excel


    Comparing Sheet of Data in Excel

    How to compare data columns of data from different sheets in Excel.

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  • Smooth Pie Chart Transitions with D3.js


    Smooth Pie Chart Transitions with D3.js

    This tutorial shows how to make smooth transitions in a pie chart using d3.interpolate.

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  • Let’s Update a Pie Chart in Realtime with D3.js


    Let’s Update a Pie Chart in Realtime with D3.js

    This tutorial builds on previous work and updates a pie chart in realtime.

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  • Yosemite National Park


    Yosemite National Park

    We love going to national parks in the spring. The weather is cool, the parks aren’t crowded, and the waterfalls are spectacular due to snowmelt. Here is a small collection of photos I shot in Yosemite at the end of March 2016.

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