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Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio, a long-standing principle in data visualisation that urges designers to strip away non-essential ink from charts, is being examined and explained in a new write-up that aims to clarify what the concept actually means and how it should be applied. The discussion has drawn attention from the design and data community, where the principle remains influential but often debated.
- 2New site ranks data visualisation tools dailyโShow HN: Dataviz, ranked daily from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN Article URL: https:// awesomedataviz.com/ Comments URL: h
A new website called Awesome Dataviz has launched, ranking data visualisation libraries and tools on a daily basis using metrics drawn from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN. The launch was shared on Hacker News as a Show HN post, drawing modest engagement with a small number of points and few comments so far.
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A new write-up examines Edward Tufte's well-known data-ink ratio, the principle from 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' urging designers to maximise the ink devoted to data and strip away chart decoration. The piece reframes the idea as 'Tufte's Razor' and walks through what the ratio actually measures and how to apply it in practice when designing charts and visualisations.
- 4New site ranks data visualisation tools daily across package ecosystemsโShow HN: Dataviz, ranked daily from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN
A new website called Awesome Dataviz ranks data visualisation libraries and tools daily, drawing signals from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN. The project was shared on Hacker News by its creator, Javier Luraschi, inviting feedback from the developer community. The rankings aim to help developers and analysts discover which visualisation libraries are currently gaining traction across the main open-source package ecosystems.
- 5NBA all-time scoring leaders charted since 1946โผEvery point scored in an NBA regular season since 1946-47, raced by career total. Seven men have led it: Fulks, Mikan, S
A data visualisation traces every NBA regular-season point since the 1946-47 season, showing how the league's career scoring record has changed hands only seven times. Joe Fulks, George Mikan, Dolph Schayes, Bob Pettit and Wilt Chamberlain each held it, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leading for 39 years before LeBron James passed him in 2023, in his 20th season.
- 6Live chart updates without re-rendering the DOMโWhen data changes every second, the expensive path is rebuilding markup or redrawing a canvas. With... # css # javascrip
Developers are discussing a technique for streaming charts where data changes every second. Instead of the costly route of rebuilding markup or redrawing a canvas on each tick, the approach uses st-core alongside CSS to update visualisations without re-rendering the DOM. Commenters in the open-source web development community are sharing the method as a lighter-weight option for real-time dashboards and monitoring tools.
- 7New site ranks data visualisation tools dailyโShow HN: Dataviz, ranked daily from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN https://awesomedataviz.com/ # HackerNews # Tech # DataViz
A new website called Awesome Dataviz has launched, ranking data visualisation libraries and tools each day based on activity across GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN. The launch was shared as a Show HN submission, where it drew modest early attention from the developer community, with commenters weighing in on the usefulness of daily cross-ecosystem rankings for picking charting and plotting libraries.
- 8Climate Central to hold monthly climate briefing on October 14โRE: https:// fediscience.org/@ZLabe/1173684 08621578631 # ClimateCentral monthly briefing 14. October 2026 18:00 CEST on
Climate scientist Zack Labe is sharing details of Climate Central's monthly briefing, scheduled for 14 October 2026 at 18:00 CEST and hosted on Zoom. The announcement is circulating among climate science and data visualisation communities, where Labe is well known for his climate graphics and outreach.
- 9North Korean Soldiers Watch Film on World War II DeadโNorth Korean Soldiers React to The Fallen of World War II
North Korean soldiers have been shown a short data-driven film, The Fallen of World War II, which visualises the human cost of the war, and their reactions have been filmed and shared widely online. The footage has drawn strong interest, as viewers rarely see ordinary North Korean military personnel responding to outside media, and the topic of wartime casualties has struck a chord with audiences globally.
- 10NFL Kickers Have Turned 50-Yard Field Goals RoutineโA 50-yard field goal used to be a miracle. The NFL made 41 in all of 1999, and 195 in 2024 alone. Every kicker's career
A statistical look at NFL kicking shows how dramatically the long field goal has become ordinary: the league produced just 41 successful 50-plus-yard kicks in 1999, but 195 in 2024 alone. Tracking every kicker's career totals from that distance week by week since 1999, Matt Prater's 59th such make, in week 17 of 2020, broke the record of 58 that Sebastian Janikowski had held since 2012. Prater finished with 82.
- 11Chart races every Nobel Prize since 1901 by laureate's birth countryโEvery Nobel Prize awarded to a person since 1901, raced by the country the laureate was born in. France and Germany trad
A new data visualisation animates every Nobel Prize awarded to an individual since 1901, ranked by the birth country of each laureate. France and Germany swapped the lead five times before 1930, and Germany was level with the United States at 35 apiece in 1949. From 1950 the US moved ahead 38-36 and has held the top position ever since.