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Data Imaginist is a personal blog at data-imaginist.com about programming and data. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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6HN people?
2017–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

Linked as a guide to graph visualisation in R: a commenter points to the ggraph package and its introduction to layouts for network graphs. The comment cites the post as a resource rather than judging it.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. To do that you want igraph or networkx in R or Python. To visualise, use the ggraph package [1] [1] https://www.data-imaginist.com/2017/ggraph-introduction-layo...

    Comment linking /2017/ggraph-introduction-layouts/

    on “Gephi – The Open Graph Viz Platform”
  2. Submitted Announcing ggraph: A grammar of graphics for relational data as a story · 115 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Fiery: flexible and lightweight framework for building web servers in R as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted ggraph 2.0.0 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Gganimate has been released. A grammar of animated graphics as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Particles: R implementation of the d3-force algorithm as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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