Re: [Axiom-developer] (no subject)

[Raymond Rogers]

On 03/06/2015 06:32 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> There is a technology called d3.js that looks especially interesting: 
> https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery and I have spent a little 
> time looking at it. It is data driven so Axiom can feed it data just 
> like it does for the current graphics. A websocket connection would 
> allow two-way interaction with Axiom. 
Leaving aside technicalities I think that
http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/chart/UDR/UDR.html
is an illustration of an effective way to organize some mathematical 
structures/relationships.  So far as I can see there is no reason calls 
(or code) couldn't be automatically generated from an illustration like 
this.  The background explanations (obtained by clicking) could be 
expanded or linked to code.  IMHO it's not complete but an excellent 
start for people trying to model statistical data.  For instance draging 
and dropping particular distributions into an "analyser" for 
comparisons, etc..., is a logical extension.
Of course the missing ingredient is an abstraction direction allowing 
focusing on particular properties; say different ranges, data types, and 
so forth.  But those ideas are rendered obvious once the "style" is visible.

Ray

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