I've added a sparkline of “posts per month over the years” to the home page of my website. And here I discuss some of the hows and whys and whatnots

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/sparkling-wok/

What’s the most Tufte-like block theme?

#design #wordpress #theme #Tufte

https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/whats-the-most-tufte-like-block-theme/

This analysis is quite interesting and reflects I think the way I perceive user interfaces. I wish though that it actually came down on a side and explained whether for example the Bloomberg interface was good or bad and / or how you would create a modern version of the density that the Bloomberg interface has.
#ui #information #tufte #design #layout : "UI Density"(https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav)

On Talks and Slides
Some history of style.

Once upon a time, Ed Tufte called me a "sanctimonious assohole". I suggested that he up the dosage of his medications and stopped recommending his books to my students and colleagues1. But — The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint remains a pretty good essay (sometimes excessive) on some of its il
https://flipphillips.com/bloggery/on-talks-and-slides/
#Bloggery #Folklore #history #knuth #latex #pixar #porter #powerpoint #presentations #talks #tufte

Tufte CSS: Elegant if slightly twee CSS from a visual designer
https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
#visualization #design #tufte #css #web #+

Currently experimenting with adapting the @pandoc output from #Markdown to #HTML to work with the awesome #CSS built for #arxiv by @dginev. I could also use #pandoc to convert to #LaTeX and then use #LaTeXML through their https://github.com/dginev/ar5ivist tool for #arxiv but why the round-trip? The changes are yet incomplete as not all font things are adjusted and right now all footnotes are represented through the same symbol. Yet, I'm quite happy with the intermediate results :-)

This gives me reactive footnotes, either in the margins (almost #Tufte style) or through hovering, nicer link highlighting, quite acceptably justified text (I'm surprised how far the web has come). I didn't yet tweak the fonts further and I want to keep my code indented.

Left: Run through pandoc with custom HTML template & some #Lua filters

Right: Current state as seen on https://ljrk.codeberg.page/unixv6-alloc.html produced with a minimalist CSS stylesheet I stole from somewhere.

Edward Tufte offers two principles for making efficient graphical representations:
- erase non-data-ink, within reason.
- erase redundant data-ink, within reason.

Above all, show the data! Tufte

Do you know that you can get Tufte's "MAXIMAL DATA, MINIMAL INK" theme for plots in a single click with @LabPlot via Theme > Tufte?

Get the project via File > Open Example.

#LabPlot #Tufte #ChartJunk #Data-Ink-Ratio #DataViz #InfoViz #Visualization #CognitiveLoad #Minimalism #Simplicity #OpenSource

[3/3] That analogy and complaint might seem a bit forced, but they aren't. We still refer to the NYT and other heavies as a "paper," but it became something utterly different decades ago. It's now an international, transmedia operation more like its progeny (News Corp in particular), and it's no accident that coincides with the terminal stage of US journalism. That could have played out very differently. There's always a risk of utopian nonsense in observations like this, but if the NYT had focused its efforts on strengthening serious journalism across the US, it — rather than PE and Gannett — could have vacuumed up locals across the country and built a very different kind of empire, much more responsive to local issues, needs, etc. The ideas needed to form a vision like that were explicit and widely discussed, so we can legitimately criticize the NYT's choice to follow a winner-take-all path. And the country, and the world in general, are paying a very, very heavy price for that, imo.

I think that's a pretty good "frame" for thinking not just about Snowfall. It also offers a pretty good frame for thinking about dataviz more generally. I love design and have devoted much (though by no means *all*) of my life to it, but a *lot* of people involved in it can't see much farther than their nose — which is one reason they can be so brilliant at what they do. As I noted in my post about dataviz a few days ago, datavizzies are still mired in a sort of nouveau-riche drive to dress their field up in signs of tradition and legitimacy, so the ways they historicize and "socialize" their field are, in a word, silly. It's way past time for them to rip down their #Playfair posters, burn their #Tufte books, and start thinking more deeply about the construction of all the data they visualize.

I should add: if you like this, maybe make a note to hassle me every few weeks (via DMs/email plz) to FINISH THE FUCKING BOOK I've been researching and writing for a decade+.

#MareyCharts are fascinating. I recall seeing them on a book like #Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". This is a good explainer, "How can a Marey chart help analyze the flow of work?": https://www.3cs.ch/analyze-work-flow-with-marey-chart/

For anyone interested, I have moved my Light Speed #Jekyll theme over to
sourcehut and also host the demo site on my own domain (instead of
Netlify)

https://ls.bt.ht/

I plan to do the same soon with my ET (Edward #tufte) theme as well.

But boy! Ain't it worth the font
Said a #tufte fan
Why do you rob the bank?
Because that's where you keep all the money
First page in one of his books
https://mathstodon.xyz/@xameer/109403884003438767

#Rstats people who write articles & presentations may like this:

#thesisdown https://github.com/ismayc/thesisdown
#rmdformats https://github.com/juba/rmdformats
#rticles https://github.com/rstudio/rticles
#tufte https://rstudio.github.io/tufte/
#prettydoc https://prettydoc.statr.me/
#manuscriptPackage https://github.com/jhollist/manuscriptPackage
#rmarkdown-website-template https://github.com/privefl/rmarkdown-website-template
#template https://github.com/cboettig/template
#manuscriptPackage https://github.com/jhollist/manuscriptPackage
#uiucthemes https://github.com/illinois-r/uiucthemes
#CSUNtemplate https://github.com/carlganz/CSUNtemplate