Simon Willison’s Weblog

Popular Science+. Matt Webb’s write-up of the Mag+ project, the platform behind the highly praised Popular Science+ iPad application.

# 12th April 2010, 1:06 pm / berg, design, ipad, magplus, matt-webb

Toiling in the data-mines: what data exploration feels like. Useful advice from Tom Armitage on the exploratory development approach required when starting to build a project against a large, complex dataset. Tips include making sure you have a REPL to hand and using tools like gRaphael to generate graphs against pretty much everything, since until you’ve seen their shape you won’t know if they are interesting or not.

# 26th October 2009, 9:34 am / berg, data, exploratoryprogramming, graphael, graphing, programming, repl, tom-armitage