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owid / owid-grapher

owid-grapher

A platform for creating interactive data visualizations

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7Mentions
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1.6KGitHub stars
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A platform for creating interactive data visualizations

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Neat! Really clever simplicity on how you added gradients. This is one of my favorite spaces, so I'll add some generic advice which may or may not be helpful. I once had the…

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Observed mentions: 2018-03-05 19:50:37 UTC to 2024-06-27 10:45:33 UTC.

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What Hacker News says

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breck·Jun 27, 2024Recommendation phrase
Neat! Really clever simplicity on how you added gradients. This is one of my favorite spaces, so I'll add some generic advice which may or may not be helpful. I once had the privilege of working for Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie at Our World in Data, as one of the engineers on their Grapher library (https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher), and learned a ton from them (and others on the team) about making great charts. My one piece of advice from looking at your examples would be: don't neglect title, subtitle, and caption! They would be so easy to do well because you've already created your "simple headers thingies". A few words go along way. Check out "Storytelling with Data" by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic for a great read on the subject. Owid's Grapher does those the best, IMO (followed closely by DataWrapper.de -- but that's not open source).
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At some point, if you keep up with this, you'll also want to add a dataflow library and DSL. Hadley Wickham's dplyr in R was the GOAT, and I copied that in my Ohayo tool and in OWID Grapher's CoreTable library (https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher/tree/master/packages/%4...). Jeffrey Heer's newish Arquero (https://idl.uw.edu/arquero/) library is also along those lines. Lately I've delving into Mike Bostock's new thing Plot (https://observablehq.com/plot/). So far, excited by it, but only spent a day or two with it at this point. I don't use emacs anymore, but hopefully something helpful in the comments above.
In Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs
Our World In Data (YC W19) | Senior Data Visualisation Engineer | Full-Time | Remote At Our World In Data, our mission is to make the world's biggest problems understandable, so that we can take effective action on them. We publish research and data on crucial topics like poverty, disease, hunger, inequality, war and climate change. The way we do this is especially through our data visualisation framework Grapher (https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher), which powers our interactive charts and our explorers for larger datasets. We're now looking for a senior engineer to join our team and take ownership over this visualisation framework. We are a remote-first team that spans EU and US East timezones. As a team, we're also passionate, talented, and driven to do work that makes a difference. Feel free to ask any questions you might have about
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the role. You can also learn more apply here: https://ourworldindata.org/senior-data-visualisation-enginee...
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)
I contribute to Our World In Data [0] and some of the Rails repos. I also run my own open source projects [1][2]. I've just recently started doing it, and I only put in a few hours each week. Slow and steady wins the race. My motivation is three-fold: First, it's gratifying to give something back to software I love using for free. Second, I learn a lot. Third, if I ever want to work with one of the companies who are stewarding these repos, it gives me a leg up in the application process. 0: https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher 1: https://github.com/shafy/fugu 2: https://github.com/mapzy/mapzy
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