imho the Coding Train videos are well prepped but the production aspect and editing is minimal. for theory-heavy topics, having a clear throughline is essential for me, even if the presenter does stumble every now and then with specifics

im getting a 404 on the link

might be a stretch but paging @attilabatorfy.bsky.social as the first (second?) of the six degrees of separation

i feel uneasy saying this, but they are visually spectacular

7 gray pixels, arranged in the correct heights to encode letter frequency as per the original article and graphic in this thread.

so, this is the final form?

I'd argue it's truly minimal, we even managed to remove any morsel of meaning from it

I 'Um, Actually"-ed so hard, I got the math wrong... oh well

25 gray pixels placed seemingly without any meaning on a white background. they resemble the last graphic from Frank's article, but the pixelated letters from the column labels are replaced with illegible Braille representations of those same letters. they are not recognizable as Braille since the feigned low resolution of the image makes them blend into shaped blocks, instead of recognizable braille cells with dots in them

if you're gonna argue with minimalism, which is simply The Right Way, you should do it without standing up a straw man.

the optimal solution here is clearly using Braille for the column labels, which reduces the true data-ink ratio from a measly 1:45 (yours) to an impressive 1:24 (mine). </sarcasm>

where did you move to? 😮

imho the issue is more that data professionals sit in central teams, instead of working closely with the people our craft is ought to make more productive.

which, in turn, is understandable because we are a big overhead cost, that is - as you note- difficult to calculate returns on

i think the "commodification" of dashboards also plays a role in this devaluation. creating a new dashboard is becoming cheaper and cheaper in orgs, so their average value to users is also going down.

for our most recent project, our designer sent over a css file with all the colors as properties (11 tones each of about 7 hues). I worked a bit with them to clean up the system, basically bring it closer to how tailwind does their colors and finally converted them to SCSS vars

I'd say always the one you're most comfortable with! unless you want to learn while doing it, in which case the one that interests you most.

i don't but i also think the changes have become a lot less predictable over the last couple years. many old heuristics like "it's cheapest x weeks before" don't seem true anymore.

I made this one over a decade ago now

www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-lo...

I know the answer is prolly quite involved but... how does it work? Is it deterministic?

Data portrait tote bags from my first in-person workshop of the year! A creative and fun way to connect during Narrative Alchemy, the course I led. Truly a joy!

#datavizworkshop #sketching #drawing #creativity