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Off topic, but that website was quite unusual. Judging by the title, I was expecting an article about perennial plants with elongated stems or trunks that usua
by guessmyname 3y ago
Off topic, but that website was quite unusual.
Judging by the title, I was expecting an article about perennial plants with elongated stems or trunks that usually support branches and leaves. Instead, I was met with a series of code blocks, briefly making me wonder if the piece was discussing a novel data structure based on traditional trees. After a few moments, the code blocks were either substituted or supplemented with the actual page content, reminiscent of Jupyter Notebooks. After about 10 seconds, it became unclear whether all the content had fully loaded.
Not the most user-friendly experience, in my opinion.
- bobnamob 3y agoobservable.hq is js notebook site. This is literally a notebook. Sharing notebooks containing this kind of analysis/visualisation is very common
- billforsternz 3y agoAgree, a bit jarring, and I don't think it ever quite answers the question either. I saw the title and decided it was a "how many gas stations are there in Chicago?" type lateral thinking question. I must admit without a lot of thought I blurted out an internalised "maybe 1 for every 10 people" (trees not gas stations) and so "500,000". I am wrong by several orders of magnitude. Whoops.
- ldgrp 3y agoGood point! I was playing around with a "fun" title and really just wanted to map out all the Jacaranda trees in my area. I've now updated the notebook and made sure the tree count is clearly mentioned.
- billforsternz 3y agoCheers, thanks.