Creating art & visualizations with Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Angelica is joined by the wonderful Anthony Starks to discuss creative coding to create art & visualizations with Go. Anthony is an independent developer/designer interested in data visualization, generative art, building tools & combining art + code.

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Featuring:

• Anthony Starks – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• GENUARY
• Anthony’s Speaker Deck
• Du Bois Visualization Challenge: 2024
• decksh: a little language for presentations, visualizations, and information displays
• W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
• African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition
• dchart: dchart makes charts using deck markup

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Chapters

1. It's Go Time (Ship it!) (00:00:00)

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2. Meet our guest (00:00:57)

3. Anthony's origin story (00:02:18)

4. Changes in Go (00:04:09)

5. Visualizations in Go (00:05:38)

6. SVG Go (00:08:21)

7. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:18:23)

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8. The #DuBois Challenge (00:20:49)

9. The Genuary challenge (00:26:20)

10. Receptiveness to Go (00:29:15)

11. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:33:34)

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12. AI (00:34:57)

13. Getting into Go (00:43:29)

14. Simplest library (00:45:53)

15. Unpopular opinions! (00:50:40)

16. Anthony's unpop (00:51:11)

17. Anthony's 2nd unpop (00:54:24)

18. Outro (Ship It!) (00:57:27)

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