I'm really loving the choice of articles, especially since you're just getting started.
Edit: I'm referring to the journal, not the author.
Edit: I'm referring to the journal, not the author.
I can see this type of interactive journal becoming very popular in other fields, but not if the author has to create the diagrams him/herself.
I think these visualizations are deceptively easy to create. Javascript is a powerful language with many libraries, and in my experience, it just took a few nudges at exactly the right spots from Shan to go from an idea in my head to fully fledged diagram in distill. The tricky part has always been figuring out what to visualize, and if you're a researcher with an clever idea for a visualization, I recommend you reach out to the distill team.
https://github.com/distillpub/post--momentum/issues/1
We've also had a few designers volunteer to work with researchers on visualization. So, in special cases, we may match-make researchers with designers to produce a great article.
- When hovering over some notes I see the citations perfectly, but when there is math involved like for example the one about spectral decay the math is not rendered (I'm using Ubuntu, I have tested both in Firefox and Chrome).
- I see you can open issues on github to send corrections. I wonder if there are other channels of communication also to, for example, address problems like the previous one and also to discuss the article.
- I see people like a lot the figures. I think too they are great but what I really love is the writing and the math exposition.
- I think that a default animation for the figures, if they are meant to be manipulated, would be great.
I will say it again: great article. I have bookmarked the journal and I will proceed to read everything published which looks very promising too.
Would it be on-topic? (After changing style accordingly.)
In brief, Distill needs to see three things to publish an article: outstanding communication, advancing the dialogue, and scientific integrity. Distill often works with authors to help them bring their articles up to our standards.
Additionally, as a primary publication, Distill will not republish content already published elsewhere, or publish "translations" of papers where someone rewrites the content of a previous paper. (This relates to advancing the dialogue.)
If you reach out to editors@distill.pub, we're happy to discuss pre-submission inquiries about journal scope and related topics.
(For some reason I though that this t-SNE article was published elsewhere. Now I see that it was on Distill, but just before its big start.)
(Distill needs to be extra careful about a lot of this stuff because we're trying to build legitimacy for a kind of work that many people are inclined to not treat as academic contributions. So on some things, like being a primary publication, we may end up taking a more defensive posture than we would in an ideal world.)
I totally understand that you need to be set high reference level at the very beginning, even if at the cost of being a bit "conservative" (I am not sure if the best word here).
Overall -- huge fan!