Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company
by marcosdumay on Friday October 20, 2017 @10:24AM
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It's a bimodal distribution, where a group of people cares deeply about the meaning a graph presents, and another group of people cares deeply about how wowing the graph is when presented.
The intersection of those too groups is too small to make any difference, thus tools will be heavily optimized for one of those.
Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company
by steamer25 on Friday October 20, 2017 @04:01PM
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Best presentation of your point I've seen:
http://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-nak...
Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company
by senecamarcus on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:37AM
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Casey Neistat on his studio "functionality breeds its own aesthetic". I try to operate with that mental model as much as possible
That's one of my pet peeves. This literally is goes in the opposite direction most of the time - the prettier the graphs presented, the more useless they are. They show less, take more space, omit units, scales, or well... even useful data. Not to mention connecting things that should not be connected, or drawing areas where they shouldn't be, etc.
It's almost like if some people wanted to screw over their customers on purpose. But, I guess, it's more of people who don't know what they're doing selling things to people who don't know how to use them.