[HN Gopher] Idyll - toolkit for creating data-driven stories and...
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       Idyll - toolkit for creating data-driven stories and explorable
       explanations
        
       Author : felixr
       Score  : 138 points
       Date   : 2021-01-02 09:11 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (idyll-lang.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (idyll-lang.org)
        
       | J253 wrote:
       | A great example of Idyll recently featured on HN[0] and the
       | direct link[1].
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       | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722275
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       | [1] https://rreusser.github.io/explorations/sphere-eversion/
        
       | abatilo wrote:
       | These visualization tools are so creative, IMO.
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       | I had interviewed with https://www.streamlit.io/ and it seems
       | that these kinds of tools can really make your data science teams
       | super productive. It becomes so much easier for them to explain
       | the impact of work that they're doing.
        
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       | mathisonian wrote:
       | Hi HN!
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       | So cool to see this on the front page. I'm a CS PhD student at
       | University of Washington, this is one of my research projects. If
       | you're interested in more details you can see the full paper on
       | the project here: https://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/idyll/
       | 
       | I'm happy to answer any questions about this or the space of
       | interactive writing and data visualization generally
        
       | magnio wrote:
       | I first learned of Idyll through this article about the Barnes-
       | Hut approximation: https://jheer.github.io/barnes-hut/
       | 
       | Hasn't got the time to play with it yet, but it does look very
       | nice.
        
       | rubyfan wrote:
       | Mobile might not be the target but unfortunately none of the
       | examples seem to work as I would expect them to on mobile.
        
         | mathisonian wrote:
         | Yes, we're continuing to improve the templates so they are
         | better on mobile. This all came out of a research project so
         | there are many rough edges, but we're making progress!
         | 
         | If anyone wants to get involved on the open source side to help
         | out, we have lots of things to work on. Feel free to comment
         | here or email idyll at mathisonian dot com
        
           | rubyfan wrote:
           | Good luck on this, I think you're pursuing a really great
           | idea.
        
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