taking another opportunity to say: god bless librarians (just got a very helpful response from one of nyu's reference librarians to my questions about historical precedents for various data visualization formats)
Also, god bless digital libraries. They have a huge stake in the open Web, and they are some of the key players in maintaining open architectures for at least part of the Web.
@aparrish "historical precedents for various data visualization formats" now you have my attention. :) care to elaborate?
@sivy basically all of the stuff in this thread https://mastodon.social/@aparrish/99865785433669676 I'm not actually all that interested in data visualization per se here, it just seemed like a good place to look for examples of what I'm trying to find
@aparrish @funbreaker reference librarians can be the best
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I keep getting amazed by the attention google gets for being such a great source of information... When you ACTUALLY need to know something, nothing beats asking an expert.
(Or sometimes wikipedia.)