07

Work w/ Abe Rubenstein on @datadog/vis ecosystem
Read Thinking in Systems (Private). Applying to building feedback loops for software teams notes on implementation/tradeoffs (Private), e.g. bots, Auto (Private)
Started The New Media Reader
Thinking about bridging gap between programming language research and production software environments
- Jean Yang's blogs + podcast + the devtools.fm podcast, example thread
- Learning about how Yarn 2+ plugins work (and plugin ecosystem design)

Continue last month's trend with deployment automation with auto (Private)
- Piloted in @nteract, currently bringing to vega

From 06

Became a co-maintainer for the @nteract/data-explorer project
- Fixed data access bugs + set up automation for generating changelogs, managing versions, etc
Learned to make plugins for Storybook by basing a plugin off the Google Analytics addon
- Practicing working with plugin ecosystems generally as part of readings from Jimmy's class
- The template uses zx for scripting, and auto for versioning/release management (which I've brought to both the nteract and vega ecosystems)
- Looking into customizing auto led me to the webpack tapable framework, as well as visual code explainers from Codecrumbs about how the tapable lifecycle works
Advising as a board member for the 2021's batch of JURIST digital scholars

Learning about new fields
- HILDA "human in the loop data analytics"
- Visflow / IML Dresden / NYU VIDA / Clustergrammer
- Research from Miriah Meyer in Utah via the latest Data Visualization New York Meetup meetup (recording in notes)
- Steve Wexler's presentation about business dashboards for the Data Visualization New York Meetup meetup
Reviewing UW IDL papers
- Vega-Lite (core) - 2017
  - Jane Hoffswell (Private)
- The Reactive Vega paper from 2014
  - Explains the parser -> dataflow -> scenegraph sequence p. clearly
- On making authoring tools
  - https://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/reflections-vis-authoring
- Review Daniel Jackson's work on concept mappings
  - Practice making concept graphs for different types of software
- CommentMe (on labeling comments with metadata)
Long read about visual code tools + tools for visualizing code: twitter thread
Visualizing Mechanisms (Private)

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