Mike Bostock is one of data visualization’s leading lights. As creator of the hugely popular visualization library D3.js and editor in The New York Times’ graphics department, he has had a hand ...

There are some news items from the past year that deserve a second chance. Here we have one such - sorting algorithms are fundamental to computer science and writing one of your own will teach you a ...

Take that in the most literal sense. There is no such thing as silence, even within the thickest stacks and complex processing of raw numerical information. Take sorting algorithms. You can think of a ...