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Juice Analytics
Company blog · juiceanalytics.com/writingdatadesign
Juice Analytics is the company blog at juiceanalytics.com, writing about data and design. Since 2008, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Juice Analytics for data visualization writing, such as pie chart critiques, sparklines, and search-share charts, and for its white papers. Most links cite posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /writing/the-problem-with-pie-charts/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-03
What Hacker News says?
Juice Analytics - http://www.juiceanalytics.com - Nashville, TN and Atlanta, GA. Python devs, SQLAlchemy We're the creators of JuiceBox, a new kind of tool for visualizing data. We have a platform built on AWS, Redshift, Django, SQLAlchemy, Backbone, and d3. We have a small team and a great work environment. There are two positions we're looking to fill immediately. Data Architect - We're looking for someone to desi…
Comment linking /work-with-us/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”Submitted Show HN: Juicebox – Quickly create beautiful, interactive data presentations as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThat Stephen Few book is pretty much all you need, but you can also check out Edward Tufte's books, and Juice Analytics' white papers ( http://www.juiceanalytics.com/ ).
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on “Your Startup Needs a Dashboard”Submitted Why Analytical Applications Fail as a story · 14 points
HN discussionLooks. That's all. Pie Charts are terrible for comparing anything because of the way the brain understands and interprets shapes, length, and size as a quantity. Someone came up with pie-charts a while back, others thought it looked cool, and it unfortunately stuck around. http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/the-problem-with-pie-c...
Comment linking /writing/the-problem-with-pie-charts/
on “How Design Works”Submitted Real-World Tufte Graphics in 11 Lines of Code as a story · 14 points
HN discussionIANAL, but this seems ludicrous on its face. The patent app was filed in 2008, and Bissantz has prior art back to at least 2006 (see, e.g., http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/sparklines-in-excel-si... ). However, my half-assed OpenOffice version ( http://joeganley.com/2008/10/sparklines-in-openoffice-calc.h... ) postdates the patent app. It would amuse me if I were in violation of a Microsoft patent.
Comment linking /writing/sparklines-in-excel-simplicity-itself/
on “Microsoft makes patent claim for sparklines”Submitted Databases are Rocks, Spreadsheets are Water as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThe landing page provides very little information to be honest. I found the examples in the blog writings to be more informative and illustrate the workflow better: https://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing I also wonder to what extent this could offer more things than things like Tableau. The looks are different I agree, but the general functionalities seem very similar.
Comment linking /writing
on “Show HN: Juicebox – Quickly create beautiful, interactive data presentations”Submitted Thrown to the Ad-Wolves... or, Learn from My AdWords Mistakes as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIn general it's hard to know what a chunk of the pie chart means. You get a very simple glance that one chunk is bigger, and another chunk is much bigger. But looking at that chart: How big is Eclair & Older compared to Honeycomb? That chart is ordered by release; you start reading it at "3 o'clock" on the right hand side, and work clockwise. Luckily they've labled each chunk of the pie. Normally they'd just have a…
Comment linking /writing/the-problem-with-pie-charts/
on “Android Jelly Bean passes 10% adoption and Gingerbread finally falls under 50%”Submitted NYTimes style bubble charts with Python and Nodebox as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI did an analysis on this a while back that told the same story, there is a blog post that includes a nice visualization of the share of travel search categories across the companies mentioned in the article: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/search-competition-tra... Direct link to the chart http://media.juiceanalytics.com/images/pattern_comparison.pn...
Comment linking /writing/search-competition-travel-sites/
on “Tripadvisor dominates Google for hotel searches ”Submitted Search Competition Among Travel Sites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSaturdam AM google fu not so good, here's what i came up with http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Network_Dia... found here: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/best-business-intellig...
Comment linking /writing/best-business-intelligence/
on “Ask HN: Is there an app that creates network graphics...”Submitted PyGTrends: Python API for Google Trends Data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lightweight data exploration in Excel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 11 Parallels Between Architecture and Interface Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Motion Charts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Think Like a Designer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 Phases of Data Analytics Maturation: Part 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Juiced Google Analytics Python API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enhancing Google Analytics Using Greasemonkey as a story · 1 points
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