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Observable mentions (284)

• A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

  Maybe I'm easy to impress, but I always stop and play around with the nested tree example when I come across Sortable. It works so flawlessly, and feels very tuned to mobile dnd. It even works to arrange (and reflow) inline spans in a paragraph! I have yet to come across this functionality in a text editor.. [0]: https://observablehq.com/@dleeftink/sortable-playground. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data

  Arrow JS is just ArrayBuffers underneath. You do want to amortize some operations to avoid unnecessary conversions. I.e. Arrow JS stores strings as UTF-8, but native JS strings are UTF-16 I believe. Arrow is especially powerful across the WASM <--> JS boundary! In fact, I wrote a library to interpret Arrow from Wasm memory into JS without any copies [0]. (Motivating blog post [1]) [0]:... - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection

  Here’s the D3 implementation (which is just an interrupted azimuthal equidistant projection): https://observablehq.com/@d3/azimuthal-equidistant-hemispheres. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things

  I made a quick tool to apply the trick he suggests at the end of the article: https://observablehq.com/@gampleman/font-centering-tool. - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• Zooming User Interface (ZUI)

  There is maybe some room for design too (Figma), but there are many times I wish it DIDN'T do that and encouraged better frame/file organization instead. ------- It can also be useful for some visualizations, like taxonomy: https://itol.embl.de/itol.cgi or https://www.onezoom.org/life.html "Drill down for details" like in disk space analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKClylmlv3w&t=1s (or similar one in D3:... - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

Vega-Lite mentions (21)

• Gnuplotlib: Non-Painful Plotting for NumPy

  I also have difficulties with Gnuplot and Matplotlib. I like Vega that allows me to create visualisations in a declarative way. If I really need something special I go with d3.js, which had a really steep learning curve but with ChatGPT it should have become easier for beginners. [1] https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation

  To ensure you do not miss this: LiveBook comes with a Vega Lite integration (https://livebook.dev/integrations -> https://livebook.dev/integrations/vega-lite/), which means you get access to a lot of visualisations out of the box, should you need that (https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/). In the same "standing on giant's shoulders" stance, you can use Explorer (see example LiveBook at... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Observable Plot: The JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization

  Nice, would be nice to have it integrated in GitHub markdown. Looks similar to Vega or Vega-lite(https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/). Definitely as rich as D3.js but gets the job done for simple visualisations. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• 2022 FIFA World Cup finishing position probability per team [OC]

  The underlying data is from an online betting site. Data analysis was done in Python and I used Vega/Altair for the visualisation. Source: over 1 year ago

• Plotting

  I have a bunch of data that I want to plot. I'm using lisp-stat, which is pretty good, for data frames and analysis. However, lisp-stat uses vega-lite for plotting and to put it mildly, vega-lite is fucking awful. Source: over 1 year ago