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Data visualization

TODO: Write this up better. Some interesting tools and websites  Blogs: http://flowingdata.com/ ,  www.visualizing.org Visualization tools for programmers:  JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - http://philogb.github.io/jit/ jqPlot - http://www.jqplot.com/ Google Charts -  https://developers.google.com/chart/ All three provides a good collection of chart types D3js - http://d3js.org/ Let me call it the jQuery for data visualization. Really appropriate for customized data visualization for the web.

Learning high school physics

Most of what you are going to read are based on my personal experience as a student of physics myself. But, I think you should have a look. I am a student of engineering now and doesn't do much of fundamental physics these days. But back in high school I used to enjoy it. More than anything else, the class textbook from the NCERT was my primary guide as I put a lot of emphasis on understanding the concept more than drilling problems or memorizing formulae. However, I was lucky enough to have done even the testing types of questions of the  IIT  JEE decently well. But, after gaining good exposure to a variety of smart students at college I now think I have found a better way of learning physics. This is what I wish to write about here. To put it in a nutshell, The concepts are short and easy. Learn them quick and easy. Work hard on solving problems, raising the difficulty level slowly but steadily. As I said, I used to spend a lot of time reading the textbook. I d...