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Dan Saber

Personal blog · dsaber.comdataeconomicsprogramming

Dan Saber's personal blog at dsaber.com covers data, economics and programming. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “A Dramatic Tour Through Python’s Data Visualization Landscape (2016)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2018–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Dan Saber's 2016 post, a tour comparing Python data visualization libraries. One commenter cites it as the start of their interest in Altair, which they follow through later releases.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

In this blog, a dude named Dan Saber discusses Analytics, Data Science, and Statistics. It's as underwhelming as it sounds.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Dramatic Tour Through Python’s Data Visualization Landscape (2016)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-05-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. danso · 2018-05-03
    I've been interested in Altair ever since I saw this blog post comparing it to other Python libraries a couple years back: https://dsaber.com/2016/10/02/a-dramatic-tour-through-python... At that time (Fall 2016), Altair was at v1.2. Version 1.2.1 hit a full year later. And v2.0 apparently landed just last month: https://github.com/altair-viz/altair/releases

    Comment linking /2016/10/02/a-dramatic-tour-through-pythons-data-visualization-landscape-including-ggplot-and-altair/

    on “Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python”
  2. momoneymoprobs · 2020-01-21

    Submitted Monopolist Behavior in the Wild: Apple Edition as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. ehudla · 2018-08-18

    Submitted A Dramatic Tour Through Python’s Data Visualization Landscape (2016) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. galacticdessert · 2020-03-23

    Submitted A Dramatic Tour Through Python’s Data Visualization Landscape (2016) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. momoneymoprobs · 2019-10-21

    Submitted Destroy Your Country's Economic Mobility with This One Neat Trick as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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