Explorables and interactives
Between exploratory data analysis and games
March 12, 2020 — November 7, 2022
Just a list of links for extremely interactive data visualisations. If I just want to throw some generic graphs into a bucket and give it a stir, I’ll use data dashboards. If I want something magical and intricate…
1 Theory
Bret Victor has a whole schtick here
Nicky Case
Nicky Case created a diagrammatic account of how “systems journalism” might work, and built many wonderful exemplars.
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No screens, no devices. Just ordinary physical materials — paper and clay, tokens and toy cars — brought to life by technology in the ceiling.
Every scrap of paper has the capabilities of a full computer, while remaining a fully-functional scrap of paper.
2 Tools
The closest thing to a generic tool that I have seen is observable.js by Mike Bostock
People often imagine that patchers are explorable data processing, and maybe they are not wrong in their imaginings.