Re:Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plott...
by sfpotter on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @04:08PM
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Yeah, I agree with the general sentiment of what you're saying.
Re: wtallis, I think my original complaint about EDA per se is indeed off the mark.
Certainly creating a 20x20 grid of live-updating GPU plots and visualizations is a form of EDA, but it seems to suggest a complete lack of intuition about the problem you're solving. Like you're just going spelunking in a data set to see what you can find... and that's all you've got; no hypothesis, no nothing. I think if you're able to form even the meagerest of hypotheses, you should be able to eliminate most of these visualizations and focus on something much, much simpler.
I guess this tool purports to eliminate some of this, but there is also a degree of time-wasting involved in setting up all these visualizations. If you do more thinking up front, you can zero in on a smaller and more targeted subset of experiments. Simpler EDA tools may suffice. If you can prove your point with a single line or scatter plot (or number?), that's really the best case scenario.
Re: wtallis, I think my original complaint about EDA per se is indeed off the mark.
Certainly creating a 20x20 grid of live-updating GPU plots and visualizations is a form of EDA, but it seems to suggest a complete lack of intuition about the problem you're solving. Like you're just going spelunking in a data set to see what you can find... and that's all you've got; no hypothesis, no nothing. I think if you're able to form even the meagerest of hypotheses, you should be able to eliminate most of these visualizations and focus on something much, much simpler.
I guess this tool purports to eliminate some of this, but there is also a degree of time-wasting involved in setting up all these visualizations. If you do more thinking up front, you can zero in on a smaller and more targeted subset of experiments. Simpler EDA tools may suffice. If you can prove your point with a single line or scatter plot (or number?), that's really the best case scenario.