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> They even wrote a book about how they went about it (not that it speaks to the quality of the API) Wilkinson’s Grammar of Graphics inspired ggplot. The textb
by williamcotton 2mo ago
> They even wrote a book about how they went about it (not that it speaks to the quality of the API)
Wilkinson’s Grammar of Graphics inspired ggplot. The textbook doesn’t even mention ggplot.
Shameless plug for my own GoG inspired DSL, Algraf:
https://williamcotton.github.io/algraf/demos https://williamcotton.github.io/algraf/demos
There’s a Minard plot in the demos!
- __jochen__ 2mo agonice, but did you expect it to not work on Safari (WASM fails)?
- williamcotton 2mo agoSafari is my default browser and it seems to be working just fine!
- akst 2mo agoOh… I assumed it was a further expansion of the ideas that with into ggplot as they all look like ggplot charts and ideas were identical I wish I could edit my original comment to add this correction.
- malshe 2mo agoYou aren’t far off. The creator of ggplot2, Hadley Wickham, based his dissertation on GoG. Ggplot2 came out of his PhD thesis if I’m not mistaken.