He recently gave a talk reflecting on matplotlib: "Lessons from middle age" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3lTby5RI54 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3lTby5RI

He recently gave a talk reflecting on matplotlib: "Lessons from middle age" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3lTby5RI54 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3lTby5RI54 Edit: At the end, he discusses the challenge of client-side rendering to make visualizations like the New York Times. d3.js comes to mind, a javascript library with a structured approach to scales, axes, projections, layouts and data-binding with SVG. The project has 12 years of work in it according to ohloh: http://d3js.org/ http://d3js.org/ http://www.ohloh.net/p/d3js http://www.ohloh.net/p/d3js I wonder what middle age will look like for javascript communities.