Crosspost from https://reddthat.com/post/76043038

Not created by me, graph created by Björn Ólafsson

I'm thinking of writing a plotting library (similar to e.g. matplotlib), that calls into an existing, established library (such as matplotlib), and I can use javascript, python, C/C++, or shell. I'm plotting datasets, not functions. I need to be able to plot 2D and 3D. Which libraries should I look at?

I guess I care about

• feature set
• how intuitive it is
• how pretty the graphs are
• that it's reasonably fast

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellite-reveals-immense-scale-of-gps-signal-tampering

I made these for a recent conference I was particularly happy with the way these came out.

And the fire ones:

Credit goes to df_iris

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/60084810

data poems

Short stories I tried to tell with numbers.

Source with interactive site

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11532

New study preprint quantifies what we've suspected: Trump's Truth Social posting becomes measurably more erratic after Epstein coverage spiking on Fox News.

Because the past few months some factors have changed, like I started contributing 10% to the 401k, and our new manager raised all our service-based commissions which vary, but I know exactly the dollars & pennies of it all, still my calculations have been way out of left field 😵‍💫 and I'm losing trust in my own brain.

check out an implementation of the fairest voting system, i made a placeholder election to try it out with

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37159807

Have fun digging, and please share interesting findings below.