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Matthew Conlen

@mathisonian

programmer / journalist, building @realtimedotorg

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Josh Pollock(@joshmpollock) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to share Bluefish, a new JS library for making diagrams!
Bluefish lets you code diagrams like they're UIs: using declarative components and reactivity.

Check it out: bluefishjs.org
github.com/bluefishjs/blu…
discord.gg/RTKDYBBybB

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Excited to share Bluefish, a new JS library for making diagrams! Bluefish lets you code diagrams like they're UIs: using declarative components and reactivity. Check it out: bluefishjs.org github.com/bluefishjs/blu… discord.gg/RTKDYBBybB Quick backstory 🧵
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Josh Horowitz(@qualmist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some of the most exciting visions of the future of programming replace textual code with domain-specific direct-manipulation interfaces.

But these interfaces are dead ends if you can't combine them to solve real problems, like how we combine libraries in code...

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Some of the most exciting visions of the future of programming replace textual code with domain-specific direct-manipulation interfaces. But these interfaces are dead ends if you can't combine them to solve real problems, like how we combine libraries in code... 1/6
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Matthew Conlen(@mathisonian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

so much effort goes into making an accurate GDP nowcast, but it isn't published in any machine readable format — only a static image and some text embedded in html

can we get a CSV or JSON Atlanta Fed?

so much effort goes into making an accurate GDP nowcast, but it isn't published in any machine readable format — only a static image and some text embedded in html can we get a CSV or JSON @AtlantaFed?
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Max Roser(@MaxCRoser) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Our World in Data team just finished a major project.

We've redesigned and rebuilt our Grapher — the tool that displays our data in interactive visualizations.

In this new article, my colleagues Marwa, Christian, and Sophia show you what is new:
ourworldindata.org/redesigning-ou…

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Kevin Quealy(@KevinQ) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thanks to many NYT Graphics friends, a bunch of our old Flash graphics now work on desktop. This one, from 2009 [weeps] is still great: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…

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VISxAI(@VISxAI) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 Don't miss Matthew Conlen's keynote on 'Beyond Notebooks: Computational Tools for Disseminating Research and Ideas' at next week!

Reminder: VISxAI is *virtual and free* this year! See you on Oct 18th, at 8am PT!

visxai.io

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Matthew Conlen(@mathisonian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'What does journalism have to do with compilation?'

A question near and dear to my heart. Rich Harris might have some thoughts on this as well.

Great Strange Loop talk from parkie-doo

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