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Re:Less Scatterbrained Scatterplots by jamessb on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:40AM (#24744705)
The novelty is not the scroll-to-zoom interaction - it's the creation of a declarative grammar for several visualization types (see Figure 2 for examples), and a system that implements this in a way that is scalable to datasets containing billions of observations.

The contributions claimed in the paper are [1]:

> To summarize, we make the following contributions:

> •An integrated system called Kyrix-S for declarative authoring and rendering of SSVs at scale.

> •A concise and expressive declarative grammar for describing SSVs (Section 4).

> •A framework for offline database indexing and online serving that enables interactive browsing of large SSVs (Sections 5 and 6).

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.15904.pdf

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Re:Less Scatterbrained Scatterplots by dlivingston on Sunday October 11, 2020 @07:05AM (#24744971)
Very cool. This could give Plot.ly a run for its money in the data science community.

Also regarding Figure 2, and at the risk of sounding cliché: my inner graphic designer is weeping at the use of Comic Sans as their choice of code font.

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