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Data-driven visualizations like these seem well-suited for data exploration, but the suggestion that scientists lives will change for the better from them seems
by cing 13y ago
Data-driven visualizations like these seem well-suited for data exploration, but the suggestion that scientists lives will change for the better from them seems like a stretch. I'm not just talking about constructing original visualizations like "Feynman Diagrams". As far as communicating science goes, plots need to be "as simple as possible but not simpler" and as reproducible as the science. If I see a paper with some homebrew plot and I can't immediately compare my data to it, that's a problem.
- tl 13y agoBret mentions the symbols (in this case, code) still being used. What I would foresee is this: take the recent LightTable video that showed a code on the left, output on the right view (or Bret's similar construction from a prior talk). Now, add a "design" switch that converts the code half to something similar to the left panel from the video. Finally, turn your paper into something where the entire body is html, the "homebrew plot" is a javascript expression, and the entire work (data and code) is accessible via View Source and Inspect Element.