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I'm a bit late to the party here, but I need to say that posts like this are why I keep coming back to hacker news. Automatic visualization of data is such a p
by MikeSchurman 6y ago
I'm a bit late to the party here, but I need to say that posts like this are why I keep coming back to hacker news.
Automatic visualization of data is such a powerful and underutilized tool in many disciplines, especially ours. A picture is worth 1000 words, and the same could be said for many styles of graphics.
I often find myself writing adhoc/bespoke visualizations for complex data, and the change in perspective can make an intractable problem almost easy, especially for more visual thinkers (so much so that I often wonder why I needed a graphic in the first place?!). To have this right in the debugger is an order of magnitude improvement and I'm excited about this tool, and I hope I find some time soon to learn it.
I know tools with aspects of this exist (ddd, etc..), but since vscode is my current editor of choice, I'm quite excited about this. Great job!