Data Illustrator Evangelism

[finn macleod]

I organise workshops in Data Science and Data Visualization; absolutely love data illustrator, and would love to run a sequence of workshops specifically with Data Illustrator. Do you have a community programme or existing protocol for bringing it to a wider market? How do you guy anticipate product launch/partnerships for roll out?

Finn 

[deft hands]

Do you have experience with Plot.ly? I'd love to get your view on a contrast between Plot.ly and Data Illustrator.

Rich

[finn macleod]

There's no comparison. Data Illustrator gives you design freedom. I can deliver styled and beautiful viz in a fraction of the time using the data illustrator workflow. Plot.ly is going to give me standard graphs. At present you can't change the data on the fly with data illustrator (I hope that will change). I remember watching the original video of Brett Victor (https://vimeo.com/66085662), and really wanting to work in that way...and now these guys at data illustrator are getting close to a commercial release. I think there is something deeper here than just the benefit of the design community, something that the data science community really needs....but that is a more lengthy discussion. Right now...keep up the good work!

F

[deft hands]

Thanks Finn, I really appreciate your thoughts - and I loved the video! I had no idea this concept has been around so long. I look forward to the first commercial release!

[John Thompson]

Hi Finn,

Thanks for reaching out - we are excited to have as many people using Data Illustrator as possible. Currently Data Illustrator is a research prototype - it is not an Adobe product - so we do not have any plans for a formal product launch or roll out.

Thanks,

John

On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 8:27:28 AM UTC-5, finn macleod wrote:

[tim.n...@tamedia.ch]

Agree, also thought about how to change the data. My take is to export the .svg, and then do some post-processing by replacing values with placeholders. Works for small and relatively static graphs. Sth like this could be automized. Having a plain .svg is also nice since because its so versatile.