coding
Brief article on how to Create Adaptive SVG with CSS.
Layout and interactivity with Hexagons Grids
How to file browser bug reports for SVG.
Example for visualizing OpenStreetMap Vector Tiles with D3.
Infographic using geographic hexagon binning to represent Worldwide Manufacturing Decisions on NYTimes.
The Koalas to the max case study.
Interactive infographic Oscar Contender, Connections on NYTimes.
Variable stroke-width is being considered again in some depth. 
Recent discussion on improving Web animations with the W3C’s CSS-SVG Effects animation group.
One of Jason Davies inspired D3.js visualization examples, SVG Tree-Layout. 
Thoughts on the new smooth curves feature in SVG2.
SVG 2.0 enhancements that are under serious consideration can be found here SVG 2.0 Requirements along with the SVG Roadmap.
learning
Registration is open for the 2013 community organized Graphical Web conference in San Francisco. 
Though the scope of the technologies involved quickly become complex, the basics of SVG are not difficult to grasp. A solid starting point is the latest SVG book which will quickly ramp up your working knowledge.
Get started playing with SVG today by running through some Inkscape tutorials.
New free Intro to D3.js course.
The Dashing JS newsletter has updates on the D3.js community.
Interactive and fairly comprehensive SVG Tutorials which cover the Basics, Scripting, and Mathematics, all of which incorporate animations.
resources
- two.js
- A two-dimensional drawing api that is renderer agnostic – enabling the same api to draw in multiple contexts: svg, canvas, and webgl.
- NVIDIA’s GPU Path Rendering
- path rendering provides full GPU-acceleration of a style of 2D graphics which powers important 2D graphics standards such as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)…
- SVGenie
- Converts SVG as PNG all client-side (without round-trip to server).
- GPDK
- Game development kit based on D3.js.
- BonsaiJS
- Graphics API and an SVG renderer that attempts to help abstract and simply some of the more intricate aspects of SVG.
- Inkscape
- Free vector graphics editor with “community-oriented development” – supports many advanced SVG features yet makes it easy to perform complex path operations, and much more…
- D3.js
- Version 3 of the D3 JavaScript Visualization Library is now available. With minimal overhead, D3 is a fast library that supports large datasets and dynamic behaviors for interaction and animation.
- Pergola
- A JavaScript SVG framework with libraries, designed to provide developers with a powerful tool for building web applications, User Interfaces, presentations and more.
- Open Clip Art
- Freely shared high-quaulity vector graphics for the community.