
… I became really excited about the possibility of getting in early on a stock I knew would succeed. I did my research and saw that trading on SHAK would start at around $25 a share. The morning of their IPO Shake Shack traded in Robinhood at nearly $50 a share. That’s because the big guys at the hedge funds bought up early shares that drove the price then dumped it onto the little guys at double what they got it for. That’s how it works, and unless you have millions of bucks, you won’t beat the system.
word… don’t mean technical mastery of a useful library, I mean learning the craft enabled by a new tool. Creating data visualizations with d3.js puts the practitioner in the unique position of controlling the data, code and design all at once. With d3 in your tool belt you look at datasets in a different way, you know you can create custom tools for communication with interactive interfaces. You can bend time to your will. You can explain things that are really hard to explain with words.