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Consider D3 to be the "C++ of data visualization" - it's flexible, powerful, and low-level enough that you can blow off both your feet if you're not careful. T
by btbuildem 8y ago
Consider D3 to be the "C++ of data visualization" - it's flexible, powerful, and low-level enough that you can blow off both your feet if you're not careful.
The real problem is this: data visualization is hard. UX is hard. I feel like a lot of people are looking for some magic-bullet framework that will let them achieve complex, highly-polished results without having to learn something.
Guess what -- there's no shortcut. You have to make an effort, learn, and practice. Most people will produce mediocre things at best, and most will give up.
- WhitneyLand 8y ago100% not true. Concepts and tools are not just hard with no shortcut. They can be hard++ or hard-- (forgive the pun on your C++ reference) depending on how the concepts are delivered and how the tools are designed and implemented. Yes, viz can't become basket weaving. But there is always a spectrum on which things can be made more or less difficult. Didn't some of your professors make subjects seem beautiful, elegant, easy to grok, while some of them seemed to make subjects no more inherently difficult inscrutable?