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How many hours did it take for you to make this page? (even after you created your initial talk.) I love these sorts of interactive, visual essays and would lo

• mbostock 12y ago
  Writing always takes longer than I expect. The issue wasn’t technical (it wasn’t too hard to take my examples from bl.ocks.org and embed them on a page). It just required more thought to take my speaker notes and translate them into prose. You can get away with more hand-waving in speech than in writing. Also, there were a few things in my talk that I wanted to fix, like replacing the rainbow color scale with something more effective. The examples themselves I worked on intermittently, typically for an hour or two in the evenings. I got interested in mazes as an analogy for design process when I gave a talk at OpenVis earlier in the year.
  • happyscrappy 12y ago
    >it wasn’t too hard to take my examples from bl.ocks.org and embed them on a page That too was interesting. You prompt the reader to view the source code of the page which lead me down the rabbit hole of !function {}() in javascript.
  • munificent 12y ago
    > Writing always takes longer than I expect. If it makes you feel better, the time was well spent. I found the prose lucid yet concise, and I know it takes a lot of refinement to get to that.