Going Virtual

The silver lining is that for the first time many people have been able to follow the speakers, attend Q&As and network with attendees at an event that would have been far out of reach.

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When x-axes become ugly!

… The challenge, however, sometimes comes when trying to draw the axes in such a way that they display all the information necessary to be able to interpret the plot while not becoming over-crowded and, for want of a better word, ugly!  

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Multiple D3 Plots on One page

In part 1, I looked at the issue I encountered with the SVG element and the need to increase its size to display the entire D3 plot that was appended to it. This was one of several challenges I faced when trying to integrate D3 into my Angular 6 application. Another issue I encountered was trying to add another plot to the page.

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AWS Pop-up Loft | Johannesburg 

It is only fair that Cape Town, the birthplace to Amazon EC2 service, gets to host the AWS Summit, but cloud enthusiasts in Johannesburg finally got to feel the love with an event of their own. Amazon Web Services are running various presentations, demos, and workshops at the AWS Pop-up Loft (https://awsloft-johannesburg.com) at Workshop17 West Street, Sandton from Tuesday 5 March until Friday 29 March 2

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Welcome

Welcome busy reader to our new series of blog posts from Chalcid.  Here we hope to share with you stories, news, and opinions over a range of topics that we find interesting, novel or just straight out fun. From news of upcoming events both local and international, technology impacts on logistics and insurance, programming and algorithms, to advances in human decision making and intelligent systems, we hope there will be something of interest that catches your eye and feeds your brain.  

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