[pm-h] Fw: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly

[G. Wade Johnson]

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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:00:43 -0800
From: Marsee Henon and Jon Johns <usergroups at post.oreilly.com>
To: gwadej at anomaly.org
Subject: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly


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Hello,

During the Strata Online Conference on January 8, Scott Murray author
of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web presented a webcast
featuring our Atlas Platform. If you'd like to find out more, watch
From Scattered to Scatterplot in 2 Hours: An Introduction to d3.js.
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Cheers,

—Marsee Henon and Jon Johns

P.S. We'll be at the Southern California Linux Expo February 21-23  
(come by our booth and say hi to Jon) and we'll be at PyTennesse
February 22-23 as well as Code PaLOUsa February 24-26 (come say hi to
Marsee)
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