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Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

General Background and Overview

Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
[Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t

People

`:bowtie:`	😄 `:smile:`	😆 `:laughing:`
😊 `:blush:`	😃 `:smiley:`	☺️ `:relaxed:`
😏 `:smirk:`	😍 `:heart_eyes:`	😘 `:kissing_heart:`
😚 `:kissing_closed_eyes:`	😳 `:flushed:`	😌 `:relieved:`
😆 `:satisfied:`	😁 `:grin:`	😉 `:wink:`
😜 `:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:`	😝 `:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:`	😀 `:grinning:`
😗 `:kissing:`	😙 `:kissing_smiling_eyes:`	😛 `:stuck_out_tongue:`

This is a non-technical reading list for technical people.

How to Program Independent Games
Kill Math (and Don't Kill Math)
Move Fast and Don't Break Things
Launch & The Web Is a Customer Service Medium by Paul Ford
_why at Art & Code
Repetitive Process

This is a list of software you should read like a novel.

	{
	// http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

	"ecmaFeatures": {
	"binaryLiterals": false, // enable binary literals
	"blockBindings": false, // enable let and const (aka block bindings)
	"defaultParams": false, // enable default function parameters
	"forOf": false, // enable for-of loops
	"generators": false, // enable generators
	"objectLiteralComputedProperties": false, // enable computed object literal property names

	%% This part goes in preamble
	\newcommand{\dummyfig}[1]{
	\centering
	\fbox{
	\begin{minipage}[c][0.33\textheight][c]{0.5\textwidth}
	\centering{#1}
	\end{minipage}
	}
	}

	var paths = [
	{
	"origin":{"latitude":42.350939,"longitude":-71.05229},
	"destination":{"latitude":35.466872,"longitude":139.622747},
	"options": {"strokeWidth": 2, "strokeColor": "rgba(0,0,255,0.33)"}
	},
	{
	"origin":{"latitude":42.350939,"longitude":-71.05229},
	"destination":{"latitude":39.908617,"longitude":19.581969},
	"options": {"strokeWidth": 1, "strokeColor": "rgba(0,0,255,0.33)"}

	##
	# The MIT License (MIT)
	#
	# Copyright (c) 2014 Ryan Morrissey
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

	// pre-render d3 charts at server side
	var d3 = require('d3')
	, jsdom = require('jsdom')
	, fs = require('fs')
	, htmlStub = '<html><head></head><body><div id="dataviz-container"></div><script src="js/d3.v3.min.js"></script></body></html>'

	jsdom.env({
	features : { QuerySelector : true }
	, html : htmlStub
	, done : function(errors, window) {

	library(maptools)
	library(geosphere)

	# load USA state-level spatial data
	# download from http://gadm.org
	# click the 'download' tab
	# select county = 'united states', file format = 'R', click ok
	# download 'level 1' for state-level data
	load("USA_adm1.RData")