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Observable Cloud – CD/hosting/analytics for Observable Framework apps only(observablehq.com)
2 points by tophtucker 2y ago|0 comments
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by tophtucker 3y ago
Hah, I just pared down that “More from Observable creators” section the other day to make it less obtrusive, and inadvertently made it more confusingly blend into the notebook contents. This is good feedback; we’ll refine it!
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by tophtucker 3y ago
From the Observable Framework point of view, you’re very welcome to use Apache ECharts or any other library instead of Observable Plot, since you can import whatever you like and it’s all just JavaScript. Since there was a lot of interest i
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by tophtucker 3y ago
Haha yeah, that’s well put — “latest” depends on time, and something that depends on time is not deterministic, so those principles conflict. Currently a Framework project has the opposite priorities as Go and always gets the latest version
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by tophtucker 3y ago
Good questions. 1. It’s just JavaScript so you can fetch stuff dynamically too (see https://observablehq.com/framework/lib/duckdb ). But yeah, only client-side. (Though see https://github.com/observ
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by tophtucker 3y ago
Yeah there are some open issues about more granular rebuilds and chaining data loaders. https://github.com/observablehq/framework/issues/638 , https://github.com/observablehq/framework&#x2
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by tophtucker 3y ago
We’ve talked about and shared your “File over app” manifesto so many times internally over the last few months. It’s one of those tweets that gets immortalized as the perfect crystallization of an ethos that we might otherwise have only bee
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by tophtucker 3y ago
Yeah data loaders are like a UNIX pipe to a reactive notebook cell (?). There needn’t be any question of “do the data loaders support this or that”; it doesn’t even have a concept of “supporting” beyond supporting stdout… Still thinking thr
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by tophtucker 3y ago
I’d never heard of Airnow; do you know if that’s where Apple and Google Maps get their AQI data too? I like seeing some points spill over to Canada… nice hint of the international cooperation… https://www.airnow.gov/partners
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Mike Bostock recreating his viral bank failure graphic (25min)(youtube.com)
2 points by tophtucker 3y ago|0 comments
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by tophtucker 3y ago
asciidoc-diagram & Kroki look cool, hadn’t seen them. I don’t think Plot’s very good at (or built for) that sort of diagramming, though you can do it if you want: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-finite-s
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by tophtucker 3y ago
There’s no animation built-in currently. But it’s fast enough that you can often just throw away and re-render the Plot (i.e. handle the animation externally). Mike Freeman made a helper function that adds that sort of animation (data gradu
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by tophtucker 3y ago
Out of curiosity I’d love to see any examples where you think Plotly is especially strong for scientific plotting. I’ve used Plot lots and Plotly none, but I’d guess the big Plotly advantages right now are - rich tooltips (coming soon in Pl
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by tophtucker 3y ago
It’s not easy to do radial stuff right now; you can upvote this issue: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/133 One bizarre workaround right now is to abuse the geographic projections: https:/&#x
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by tophtucker 3y ago
Fil (one of the Plot developers) made https://github.com/Fil/plot-cli , and Michael Keller has https://github.com/mhkeller/plot/ , which supports Plot (and Vega-Lite and Plotly). Could probably
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Observable Plot adds TypeScript declarations(github.com)
2 points by tophtucker 4y ago|0 comments
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by tophtucker 4y ago
Re 1), I like Mike's talk from the 10th anniversary of D3. It came while working on Plot but before it was officially released; a few of the points relate to the high/low-level thing and anticipate Plot: Video: https://
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by tophtucker 4y ago
Oops yup shared! I gave a presentation once on why I kinda like pie charts but it was based on zero research so I'd be interested to see that. I mean I think if you're just showing one whole they're as intuitive as any visual
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by tophtucker 4y ago
Maps are the big new thing but note that projections mean you can also now do pie and donut charts lol: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/pie-to-donut-chart
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by tophtucker 5y ago
Yeah, we at Observable love Vega-Lite (and Arquero etc). My coworker Ian wrote a great summary of how Plot relates to Vega-Lite here: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-vega-lite . Like you said, his first poin
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by tophtucker 5y ago
Yup. There’s some discussion of this in this issue https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/359 , which notes that the ~100 test plots in https://github.com/observablehq/plot/tree&
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by tophtucker 5y ago
Not currently, but we’ve talked about it. We’ve been using a lot more TS internally lately so there’s a growing case and it’s good to hear your vote.
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by tophtucker 9y ago
nice. great clear thorough code snippets on homepage. i should try it. why "tamber"?
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by tophtucker 11y ago
I like "insider information" as a lazy excuse for the hinting/info-leakage problem. :) It's a metaphor!! -the developer
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by tophtucker 11y ago
Did notice, didn't know what to do about it. I think it's the main problem with the game. There are plenty of options that don't leak and maybe I was just too enamored of the visceral feel of the y-domain following simplified
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by tophtucker 11y ago
Hi I made the game. Really glad you brought up #1 — I think it's the main problem with the game. The y-domain follows a simplified and smoothed version of the price line, which, yes, leaks information about the future. Not sure what to
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by tophtucker 11y ago
You're right, lines 104 & 140 in http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-ketamine-depression-t... . Considered the gpu thing but was reading mixed advice ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/
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by tophtucker 11y ago
critique me! #showhn http://bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-ketamine-depression-treat...
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by tophtucker 11y ago
that's no image
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by tophtucker 12y ago
I love this. Thank you. - Are there general principles you'd emphasize for mapping continuous control domains to discrete content ranges? (Like input rasterization.) - If you could redesign the user control/input space (keyboards,

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