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+title: "The Fast & Furious Data Visualizations"
+date: August 20, 2021
+author: David E. Ackley
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+#### August 20, 2021 David E. Ackley
+
+The main data visualizations tools from the D3 wrapper that was created by ...
+This project is a part of Empirical, a header-only C++ library equipped with tools for developing experimental software.
+
+
+## A brief history lesson on Javascript
+invented by Brendan Eich
+simply for dynamic web pages
+
+
+### The bias against JavaScript
+
+
+### ECMAScript versions over the years
+
+
+## Running on undefined
+### nonsensical duck typing + prototype classes
+### making pit stops for runtime errors
+### lanes on the web assembly bridge
+imports and exports
+type mismatch
+
+## Turbocharging the Javascript Engine
+With the release of WebAssembly, web developers gain the ability to have 
+low level control over near-native execution of client side code. (near native execution)
+
+### compiling to wasm
+opens the door for many opportunities
+Stack based virtual machines
+binaryen, llvm, 
+
+### Chrome V8 and SpiderMonkey
+dev tools to look at wasm
+recording performance
+
+## Emscripten supplied couplers
+Emscripten comes with a variety of ways to connect C++ and JavaScript code.
+
+### who's driving?
+consider where the control flow of your application lives and where to bridge
+control flow, data flow, shared memory, multithreading
+
+### JS at the wheel
+better access to web apis and other front end tools
+
+### C++ at the wheel
+javascript macros
+emscripten bind classes and override with javascript
+eventual support through emscripten val and wasm api thing
+
+## Accelerating your data driven documents
+
+### d3 wrapper chassis
+Mainly built using emscripten JavaScript macros.
+
+### D4 summer 2021 models
+#### the D4 histogram
+#### the D4 scatterplot
+
+## Coming full circle
+
+## Acknowledgements