Make it make sense
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Jun 10
Antoni Gaudí, who died one hundred years ago today, picked up a fondness for the catenary — the hyperbolic cosine, the shape of an idealized hanging chain — working on suspension bridges. observablehq.com/@toja/caten…
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Jun 6
We’ll try to do our part. Here it is reproduced in a notebook, with a parquet file of the underlying million z-statistics. observablehq.com/@tophtucker…
Jun 4
I'm on a mission to make this plot as publicly recognizable as the one with the holes in the WW2 airplane
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Jun 6
There’s probably already a notebook for most such famous recognizable plots. What would be in your canon? Keeling curve, Anscombe’s Quartet, Snow’s cholera map…
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Jun 6
Observable Plot hit >100k daily downloads yesterday for the first time! Literally “off the chart”! (Because we set the maximum of the y domain to the 99.5th percentile in order to occasionally give ourselves this satisfaction.) Congrats to Mike and Fil! observablehq.github.io/oss-a…
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Jun 6
Some great D3 packages also booming. d3-array, d3-shape, d3-scale — love it, makes sense. We’re more surprised by the similar boom in d3-time-format, which — though also a classic! — has long since been largely obviated by Intl.DateTimeFormat & its ilk. observablehq.github.io/oss-a…
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Jun 6
Ah, you ask, but how does that compare to the baseline growth of *all* npm packages (below)? Still relatively strong.
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Jun 4
In 1943, Patrick Abercrombie wanted to describe “a general plan for creating ‘new towns’ but didn’t have the authority to designate specific sites for redevelopment. So, he decided blobs would do the trick.” Matt Khinda recreated the “potato plan” in D3: observablehq.com/@mpkhinda/d…
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Jun 3
Congratulations to Pluto (reactive computational notebooks for Julia) on releasing version 1.0! 🎂discourse.julialang.org/t/pl…
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Jun 3
In March, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security waived the Jones Act, which says only U.S.-made ships can ship between U.S. ports. The waiver stipulates that vessel movements be publicly disclosed. @LaoTzunami mapped them; they’re most commonly gasoline observablehq.com/d/3a8755883…
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May 27
“[O]ur model is not the sphere, which is no greater than its parts, where every point is equidistant from the centre… Instead, it is the polyhedron, which reflects the convergence of all its parts, each of which preserves its distinctiveness.”
Explore: observablehq.com/@pamacha/pl…
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May 27
That’s by @paulchaikin. Or here’s one by Mark McClure, showing cutting a polyhedron into a net. observablehq.com/@mcmcclur/u…
There are eleven ways to unfold a cube, which he collects here: observablehq.com/@mcmcclur/t…
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May 27
See also @makio135’s “Polyhedrons & lasers” observablehq.com/@makio135/p… and Platonic solids lineup observablehq.com/@makio135/p…, or @mootari’s exploration of @ProfStemkoski’s polyhedra npm package observablehq.com/@mootari/po…, which in turn pulls from George W. Hart’s Encyclopedia of Polyhedra
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May 20
In this notebook, @LaoTzunami visualizes a state space of possible chart types and transitions among them along defined edges. Transitions between unconnected types are achieved by routing through intermediate types. observablehq.com/d/3c8b08281…
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May 20
This resembles some of the transition diagrams in @jeffrey_heer’s classic “Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics” idl.uw.edu/papers/animated-t…, but makes the diagram itself an interface for constructing the chart.
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May 21
Also don’t miss that you can click on edges and adjust their easing, e.g. to make them all linear and fast so there’s no pause between successive transitions.
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May 19
.@_mattneary wrote a couple notebooks about this
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The Kelly criterion says you should take green if your net worth is over $10k.
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May 19
Here @theohonohan ported Ken Perlin’s classic “vpuff” generative cloud Java applet mrl.cs.nyu.edu/~perlin/exper… to a notebook. observablehq.com/d/64d440b67…
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May 19
Matt Khinda’s notebook compares 311 service requests and DOT pothole work orders (from opendata.cityofnewyork.us) to explore the decline in pothole reports; the seasonality; the geographic distribution; and the first 100 days of the last three mayors. observablehq.com/@mpkhinda/n…
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