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Elijah Meeks

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in Woodland, CA, The United States

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http://emeeks.github.io

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Data Visualization

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February 2009

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I'm currently a senior data visualization engineer at Netflix, where I have the chance to create visual representations of big data. I started doing data visualization and analysis in graduate school where I used GIS to study the effects of environmental change on historical states. Before coming to Netflix, I worked at Stanford creating interactive scholarly works in the field of digital humanities, which broadly speaking is the application of new analytical and interactive techniques to the study of history, literature and philosophy. ...more

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"Michel Eyquem and Other Western Daoists"

"Quest for Glory: The Hero with a Thousand Builds"

"A Survey of Thematic Spam Based on Thematic Blog Posting: Effects on Machine Learning"

"But a Medieval Peasant Understood His Small World: An Exploration of Relative Ignorance and Its Implications on the Adoption of New Technology"

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	D3.js in Action 4.01 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Son of the Great River 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	D3.js in Action, Third Edition by Elijah Meeks (Goodreads Author), Anne-Marie Dufour it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History by Les Roberts (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Thomas Thevenin (Contributor), Julia Hallam (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

by Paul Ricœur

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Software Takes Command

by Lev Manovich

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Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community (Civil Society)

by Thomas A. Lyson

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message 1: by Elizabeth

Jan 08, 2010 10:32AM

A Belated Happy new year to ya Elijah!

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