[Showme-devel] ShowMeBox poster at DebConf16

[Bernelle Verster]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Siri Reiter <siri at jones.dk> wrote:
> Hi Bernelle, thanks, wow, that was fast!
>
> On 06/20/2016 11:26 AM, Bernelle Verster wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Siri Reiter <siri at jones.dk> wrote:
>>> On 06/13/2016 09:35 PM, Bernelle Verster wrote:
>>>> As Graham said, while all the info about the ShowMeBox is on the
>>>> Debian wiki, it's hard to see what it is exactly that we are doing,
>>>> and why. Would it be possible to design a poster, something simple
>>>> that can be used for multiple things in future, possibly, to display
>>>> at DebConf16?
>>>
>>> I imagine a small box with a chaos of graphs floating, spewing or
>>> exploding out of it.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions to how to get fresh examples?
>>
>> My preference is from this site: https://d3js.org/
>> Or even the information is beautiful site:
>> http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
>
> Beautiful!
>
>> The obvious challenge is that these were not explicitly made using the
>> ShowMeBox, I don't know how e.g. Jonas would feel about using them?
>> It should be fairly straightforward to get in touch with the website
>> people to ask for images and the appropriate licensing - I can help
>> with that.
>
> Ideally we use examples from free software only. But the imagery is just
> examples of types of graphs. They should maybe even be stripped down to
> pattern-like ornaments.
>
>
>> Alternative, or in addition, there is an 'svg crowbar' that exports
>> the dynamic visualisations as svg files, see here:
>> https://gist.github.com/mbostock/6466603
>>
>> I used this one, the version 2: http://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/
>
> Uh, too complicated for me already. ;-)
>
>
>>> Since Showmebox is not tied to Beaker Notebook, there might be other
>>> examples accessible out there. Any pointers?
>>>
>>> The most convenient format to work with would be svg - vector graphics.
>>
>> I have made Sankey diagrams like this one for my PhD:
>> https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/ and I understand it well enough to
>> adapt it to size etc needs, so we can play with this type of graph to
>> get a perfect one for your poster, and the licence then won't be an
>> issue. I can *try* to do this on Graham's Julia, which should be easy
>> as it's a .json file, a .html file and I use python to run it on
>> localhost...
>>
>> I can send you my files if you want to play, but tutorials are also available:
>>
>> Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
>> Scott Murray
>> http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.html
>>
>> D3 Tips and Tricks: Interactive Data Visualization in a Web Browser
>> Malcolm Maclean
>> https://leanpub.com/D3-Tips-and-Tricks
>>
>
> Nice.
> This time I don't want to make graphs myself. Make up data etc - it's
> all too complex and time consuming. You are certainly welcome to feed me
> graphs, only I imagine you have a lot on our hands already ...
>
> I'm going with Jonas' suggestion and focus on the composition. Graphs
> can be interchangeable, so less ideal ones can maybe be switched with
> better.
>
> Tick-tock ...

I sent this only to Jonas by mistake:

> Ah, great idea. Siri, can you give a set of size requirements, and any
> other preferences for this layout? Then me/others can do the grunt
> work to size, if that makes sense... e.g. two circles of 200px
> diameter, three boxes of 200 x 300px or whatever...

So basically, would these graphical equivalents of loren ipsum be
square-ish, or long and wide, or ...
>
> -Siri
>
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