Builder of Tools like @SankeyMATIC. @nowthis@tilde.zone! Husband, Dad; Musician; old-school semi-lapsed Weblogger. He/him.
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I’ve been idly thinking about how to improve the layout of flow diagrams for a long time.
(@SankeyMATIC was first released in 2014, so… about that long.)
I can’t say I’ve solved the whole problem, but I am quite proud of these recent improvements.
#dataViz #BuildNiceThings
Friends: I have been spending time in the Land of Somewhat Challenging Geometry Algorithms.
After an extended stay there, I return to you with some visible improvements to share:
1. An improved layout engine
2. More precise controls for your diagrams
Let's dig in.
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#dataViz
ALT 3 small example diagrams showing some of the new output capabilities of SankeyMATIC. The first example is a funnel where the initial nodes lose value and converge on a single final node. The second is an image where one node splits into two child flows; the top child node splits into two more child flows; then the top grandchild splits into two more flows. The third is a binary tree showing 8 elements collapsing down to one and then splitting into 8 nodes again on the far end. Each type of image will be referenced in the thread below.
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I want to recognize Brian Lamb for giving us the ability to watch this without some asshole yelling in our ears.
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Oh, I see. This is clearer now. Elon and his mum think we're all their employees.
This makes absolute sense. When I give a talk for a corporation, I don’t promote other corporations. If I did, I would be fired on the spot and never booked again. Is that hard to understand?
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Obviously the point of moderation isn't to please me personally. But I do wish it were easier to actually avoid toxic content, instead of having it delivered in a shell of "I do not approve of this toxic content that I'm nonetheless sharing."
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Delegating is hard because you have to intentionally not do stuff that you want to do because you delegated it.
That only leaves the stuff you didn't want to do that you couldn't delegate.
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Interesting. The AI totally fails the cognitive reflection test. It gives the intuitive but incorrect answer every time.
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datasets crawled from the pre-2020 internet are going to be the digital equivalent of low-background steel
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Bypass @OpenAI's ChatGPT alignment efforts with this one weird trick
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A notable departure from @Twitter: one of the oldest, most robust open government & civic technology websites in the USA has signed off.
@govtrack remains on the open Web: govtrack.us/ & continues to be social on Mastodon, Instagram, Patreon, & Github.
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Not like we wrote a paper about that or anything which we got fired for.
What COULD go wrong?🤔
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3…
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Hearing tonight's news out of Twitter reminds of a two-year study Google conducted. It found that high-performing teams have five specific traits:
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I remember the old saying, “Better to be thought a fool than to buy Twitter and remove all doubt.”
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