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- May 18 2015
Welcome Jess Klein
We’re on cloud nine for our newest Bocouper – Jess Klein! Jess joins us from the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where […]
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- May 13 2015
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility is Decadent and Depraved
Look, I like good typography as much as the next person—maybe even a little more. When a CSS property came along with promises to doctor all my type with ligatures and carefully calculated kerning—not some half-assed tracking, but real kerning—I jumped at it. I put text-rendering: optimizeLegibility on headings, body copy, navigation links; I slapped […]
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- May 07 2015
Stereotropes Design
Our Data Visualization team recently launched a new project called Stereotropes, an interactive experiment exploring the relationships between gender and the words used to describe common tropes found in film and TV. In this post, we wanted to share some of the design process that went into turning the raw trope data into an interactive […]
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- May 01 2015
Lessons from Scrum
There is a notion in the software industry that teams are either “doing Scrum” or not. That is true in some cases, but the majority of teams are using a hybrid of methodologies based on their experiences and situation. Some of this apparent isolation is linguistic: Scrum has its own terminology for some notions that […]
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- Apr 29 2015
Vintage Visualization Restoration – Bump Chart Edition
As a side project, I decided to reimplement a classic bump chart visualization using JavaScript and D3. Check it out here. My Introduction to the Bump Chart This bizarre but majestic visualization was originally created for the 1890 US Statistical Atlas by the wonderfully talented Henry Gannett. It provides a look at the most populated […]
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- Apr 24 2015
Good-bye Ashley
Our friend and colleague in Open Web education, Ashley Williams, has left Bocoup. We first met Ashley when she was teaching for the Flatiron School, and we were impressed with the passion she has for programming and computer science education. While at Bocoup, she worked on a number of different projects including several training classes, […]
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- Apr 24 2015
Announcing Johnny-Five.io
After three years of community development, Johnny-Five has its own home on the web – we’re thrilled to announce johnny-five.io! The new site combines content from the repo, the wiki, tutorials from the Bocoup blog and several third-party websites into a single, easily-discoverable source: If you want to find the API documentation, that’s right here. […]
Continue ReadingAnnouncing Johnny-Five.io - Apr 23 2015
Introducing Stereotropes
The Data Visualization Team here at Bocoup has been hard at work building an exciting interactive experience. Today we are really thrilled to share our work with you. Please welcome to the world Stereotropes: Stereotropes is an interactive visualization experiment, exploring a set of “tropes” authored and tracked by a community of contributors on TV […]
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- Apr 01 2015
Pushing NodeBots Into The Future with Tessel 2
On March 5, 2015, Technical Machine announced the next generation of their Tessel platform: the Tessel 2. Additionally, Technical Machine announced a prototype-to-production service for products that are built with the Tessel 2. These are both very exciting developments for the future of NodeBots. According to Technical Machine, the Tessel 2 builds on and grows […]
Continue ReadingPushing NodeBots Into The Future with Tessel 2 - Mar 31 2015
Welcome Christine An
Today, we’ve got An Announcement: Christine An has joined Bocoup as our Communications Manager! Christine (or just Stine) comes on board from the Public Education Leadership Project at the Harvard Business School. She’s one of the organizers of a monthly salon on Tech & Ethics at the EMW Bookstore, and is an Assistant Editor of […]
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