Idyll – toolkit for creating data-driven stories and explorable explanations

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168 points·felixr··8 comments

Hi HN!

So cool to see this on the front page. I'm a CS PhD student at University of Washington, this is one of my research projects. If you're interested in more details you can see the full paper on the project here: https://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/idyll/

I'm happy to answer any questions about this or the space of interactive writing and data visualization generally

A great example of Idyll recently featured on HN[0] and the direct link[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722275

[1] https://rreusser.github.io/explorations/sphere-eversion/

These visualization tools are so creative, IMO.

I had interviewed with https://www.streamlit.io/ and it seems that these kinds of tools can really make your data science teams super productive. It becomes so much easier for them to explain the impact of work that they're doing.

I first learned of Idyll through this article about the Barnes-Hut approximation: https://jheer.github.io/barnes-hut/

Hasn't got the time to play with it yet, but it does look very nice.

Mobile might not be the target but unfortunately none of the examples seem to work as I would expect them to on mobile.

Yes, we're continuing to improve the templates so they are better on mobile. This all came out of a research project so there are many rough edges, but we're making progress!

If anyone wants to get involved on the open source side to help out, we have lots of things to work on. Feel free to comment here or email idyll at mathisonian dot com

Good luck on this, I think you’re pursuing a really great idea.

My partner and I made a Sudoku explainer [1] for my nephews using this. It was a really good toolkit once we wrapped our head around React.

[1]: https://sudoku.nikhilism.com/

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