Re:Observable’s Not JavaScript
by jacobolus on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:33PM
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(a) This tool does make it significantly easier to make explorable explanations, and in particular facilitates sharing / re-using code and ideas.
(b) This tool is useful in a wide variety of fields that are not statistics- or data-visualization-adjacent.
Personally I find it to be the best (most reader friendly) available platform for most types of code documentation and learning materials, as long as the code involved happens to be Javascript. I would also love to see more research papers published as notebooks.
(b) This tool is useful in a wide variety of fields that are not statistics- or data-visualization-adjacent.
Personally I find it to be the best (most reader friendly) available platform for most types of code documentation and learning materials, as long as the code involved happens to be Javascript. I would also love to see more research papers published as notebooks.