This week I launched my latest data project and would love to tell you about it. It got a lot of traction on LinkedIn! Also, my latest newsletter issue on Shiny and Streamlit made quite a bit of noise and sparked many interesting discussions.
Let me unpack all this.
Data To Art
This week, I’m delighted to launch my latest website:
For years, I’ve been passionate about people who use data as a medium to create truly beautiful work.
A few months ago, I met Marthe Viallet in Paris. She’s a data art curator, and we decided to combine our skills to create an online data art gallery together.
Last week, I shared my thoughts about wrapper tools like Shiny and Streamlit. I explained their limitations and made the hypothesis that, with the rise of AI, they may no longer be useful. 😳
If you’re interested, this sparked many discussions by email and on LinkedIn. Thanks so much for interacting! I love it when the internet looks like this instead of useless AI slop, and I’ll try to summarize the discussion for you soon.
I was also happy to see that many people shared my opinion: in the AI era, there is little reason not to use the “real” tools to create interactive dataviz. And that brings me to my last point.
It’s the perfect time to learn D3.js
I’m an AI pessimist. But there’s one great thing about it: d3.js is now accessible to everyone.
In case you missed it, d3.js is the best tool to build graphs. It’s limitless, but traditionally hard to learn.
Today:
React, another JavaScript library, makes it much simpler if you use it the right way
AI can write most of the code for you, as long as you understand the concepts and know how to guide it
My take is that many people will switch to it in the very near future. And the ones who don’t will miss out.
So I decided to create an online course on the topic.
I’m opening the doors for the first cohort now, and they will close on February 15. I’ll send an email next week with more information, but you can already learn everything & enrol here.
If you have any questions, just hit reply!
And be careful: once you start building visualizations with these tools, there’s no going back.
I’m so excited about this!
Let's talk soon,
Yan PS: the landing page is brand new! If you see anything wrong on it, please let me know! 🙏
