Elijah Meeks

Introducing Semiotic 3, a #chart library designed for streaming #dataviz and AI-assisted coding. Prior versions of Semiotic were ambitious but less developer friendly. Since I firmly believe the AI-assisted development model is here to stay, I felt this version had to support it.

Streaming Geospatial Data Visualization. Or... if you're @kennethfield, maybe Animated Cartography.

I love the HOC model in Semiotic, now I can make easy wrappers on the XYFrame so people can have simple effective Quadrant Charts with an easy interface.

"But WAIT" I don't care what any of you say, I love Claude's inner dialogue style.

I can see Bret Victor's Explorable Explanations in every Claude prototype and data story and yet we don't really seem to be celebrating the democratization of the form and instead it seems more like we're scared that we lost the ability to keep these barbarians out.

@kennethfield Please point!

@Elijah_Meeks You can claim it 👍 There's a couple of decent books I could point you to of course. Mostly it's just about thinking, making justifiable design decisions, sharing work and being open to critical eyes. That's my opinion fwiw.

So fun to get back into geospatial dataviz.

@kennethfield Oh you! I always feel scared to claim cartography as a skill because I'm not making the kind of work (or the kind of tooling that can produce the kind of work) that real cartographers can do. But I would love any pointers on good defaults and universally useful functionality.

@Elijah_Meeks That would be called 'cartography' 🤣

What is the best way to encode a road network as data? sandboxspirit.com/blog/data-stru…

@shrimpala Soon everyone will be able to do it with almost no effort.

@Elijah_Meeks Flashbacks, did that 20 years ago for a university course.

What have I done. #minard #map #dataviz

@warcriminalgreg It's a version of Minard's Map that is geolocated and placed on actual geography and uses particles to indicate flow with a connected scatterplot below it showing temperature correlated with the size of Napoleon's army. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

@Elijah_Meeks wtf am I looking at?

@igocrite I'm afraid all I've got are particles.

@Elijah_Meeks Not sure the dots work for this viz. Have you tried stripes?

It's performance testing day and the early results are really quite promising.

COBE v2: reliably use any DOM elements as markers & arcs. CSS transition, animation, filter, interactivity, ...all just work. High perf, zero deps, still ~5KB. Coming soon.

You can give it a try here: semiotic.nteract.io

Testing out how well AI understands the instructions for Semiotic realtime charts and while there are still some rough spots to work out... it's really quite easy now to build a realtime dashboard. Here's wikipedia event streams from two prompts.

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I might owe Claude an apology this is quite nice.

@Roseofwolf @GregFeingold @AnthropicAI I think Greg would make a great asset to our team.

@GregFeingold @Elijah_Meeks @AnthropicAI He wants to be hired 🤣

I'm glad Claude is supporting diagrams and I love Claude (it has revolutionized my approach to software development) but these are nice diagrams and neither cool nor amazing. Nice. Nice job @AnthropicAI on the charts. Not amazing yet but maybe some day.

@GregFeingold @AnthropicAI Making sure to get them right and legible and use very comprehensible charts was the right first step. I think the best approach sees dataviz as first data access, then data transformation, then data literacy. I would go for maps next, then maybe counterintuitively DAGs (flows).

@Elijah_Meeks @AnthropicAI would love some feedback on how we can improve!