Show HN: SciZone – Embed scientific datasets and phenomena on the web

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Author here - I've been working on this add-on for some time. SciZone allows you to paste little 'snippets' (urls) onto web pages. Any user who has the add-on can hover over the link and see the data.

For instance, if you have the add-on, you'd be able to hover over this link: sci.zone/#9LeYO and see the weekly number of nuclear arms the US and Russia have had over the years since the Cold War. If I wanted to pop in a definition of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, I can: sci.zone/#LNcSk. (There may be an issue with Hacker News changing up my links)

It is my hope that SciZone will help make discussions on the web even more informed and backed-up with hard data. In some sense, it acts as a citation; except now the citation is interactive!

The project has a long way to go and I could use all the feedback I can get. Just be constructive. Thanks.

This seems pretty cool, and being able to display charts easily is a valuable thing to have. There doesn't seem to be any fallback for people to view charts if they don't have the extension installed, however. Even just a link to something like the landing page, with the chart they're looking for in place of the US/Russia Nuclear stockpiles chart.

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