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April 30 is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, celebrated annually to raise awareness for the millions of animals waiting in shelters to find their fur-ever homes. The day aims to encourage people to adopt.
From Dogs to Rabbits, NPR Readers Share How Adopting Shelter Pets Impacted Them
Brittney Melton
I grouped our crimes against data visualisation into three categories: charts that are (1) misleading, (2) confusing and (3) failing to make a point.
Mistakes, We’ve Drawn a Few
Sarah Leo
The implementation of Array as an object with restricted keys has the peculiar effect in that eliminating an element (as in delete a[1]) does not shrink the overall length of the collection; instead it creates a “hole”: an undefined entry without a key. The treatment of holes by various JavaScript facilities is inconsistent.3 The proper way to remove an element from an array without leaving holes is to use the splice() function. (The delete operator is intended to remove elements from objects.)
D3 for the Impatient
Philipp K. Janert
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