Idea
Alone in a coffee shop near Musée d’Orsay yesterday, I was too tired to continue walking in the museum. I started to read a book called Show Your Work! on my Kindle. and I was inspired by the author’s idea of sharing your work as an amateur.
Sometimes, amateurs have more to teach us than experts.
“It often happens that two schoolboys can solve diffibulties in their work for one another better than the master can,” wrote author C.S. Lewis. “The fellow pupil can help more than the master becasue he knows less. The difficulty we want him to explain is one he has recently met. The expert met it so long ago he has forgotten. “
Watching amateurs at work can also inspire us to attempt the work ourselves.
From Show Your Work!
I have recently been learning D3.js. As a beginner, I encountered many struggles and spent quite some time solving them. Perhaps those problems are easy for seasoned data viz designers working with the web, so they don’t mention them in the tutorials, but they are not very intuitive for people like me who do not have a CS background. I thought I could share my experience with D3.js while I am learning it. Hopefully, I can help someone in the process and get help from others. It might also inspire someone to learn D3.js.
Action
I will share my experience of learning D3.js for 30 days. It’s not Learning D3 in 30 days but Learning D3 for 30 days because it’s still in process. 🙂
To be honest, I don’t know where this journey will take me. But I am sure I will learn something new along the way.
I also came up with a name for this series – Dai∘ly.
Qichun Dai 