accidentally made some “art” with plot today

Try some saturated colors and you’ll get a Mondrian!

What were you plotting? (If you can discuss it)

I came across this and thought people might be interested:  https://kblincoe.github.io/publications/2020_SPE_CanaryCoalMine.pdf (it’s a software engineering research paper about what perhaps went wrong with Sourceforge)

a histogram of the midwest dataset for ggplot2 on area

not very interesting

Hey, there must be some interest for you to bother with it :stuck_out_tongue:

(also, I was hoping that you would reply with something like “world domination” :sweat_smile:)

I’m working on a series of abstractions that make common plots easy to make, so the data isn’t actually that important

the point is that something intelligible comes out of the data, and clearly here I messed something up :stuck_out_tongue:

Depending on precisely what you want to show, that might be exactly the right way to present it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

In my experience, one person’s totally clear source of knowledge is somebody else’s completely mystifying mess

it was supposed to be a histogram though, so this clearly isn’t the intended output. (all the data is technically correct, though!)

i inadvertently multiplied each bar by an increasing scaling factor

Oh, right. Yeah, that doesn’t look much like a histogram to me :stuck_out_tongue:

the actual graph I wanted

Now that’s a histogram! :slightly_smiling_face:

Actually, speaking of plotting libraries… Back when I was still an undergrad with only a couple of CS papers under my belt, I used to wonder about precisely how they handled drawing graphs & charts in programs. Then, I enrolled in a course which said that part of it would discuss graph algorithms. I was quite curious to see it (though also wondering why they would discuss such matters in the course). It didn’t turn out to be the graph algorithms I was expecting, of course :sweat_smile:

That was an interesting read. I skimmed over some of the analysis that seemed in the weeds. I think they are right about Github. Sourceforge was stuck in the CVS/SVN way of revision control. The workflow to set up a repository wasn’t as effortless as setting up a git repo is on Github.

would you like to show this off at Racketfest Amateur Night, as part of the “art show” there?!