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Nicolas Kruchten

Personal blog · nicolas.kruchten.com/content · on HN as nicolaskruchtendatadesign

Nicolas Kruchten writes Nicolas.Kruchten.com, a personal blog at nicolas.kruchten.com about data and design. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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23mentions?
14HN people?
2011–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

Nicolas Kruchten is a data visualization researcher based in Montreal, Canada.

The author on HN?

nicolaskruchten · 378 karma · member since 2011

Visualization Lead at https://hex.tech/ Creator of https://plotly.express/ and https://react-pivottable.js.org/ and https://pivottable.js.org/ Personal Website: http://nicolas.kruchten.com/ Email first at last dot com.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation (2018)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-02-05
  2. Python Drag'n'Drop Pivot Tables and Charts in Ipython Notebook
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-10
  3. Direction Angrignon: a different kind of subway map
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-01
  4. Apple Names Things
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. nicolaskruchten · 2015-03-06
    I posted something similar a few months ago: http://nicolas.kruchten.com/content/2014/02/modest-proposal-...

    Comment linking /content/2014/02/modest-proposal-for-ethical-ad-blocking/

    on “Google Contributor”
  2. ingve · 2021-07-03

    Submitted Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation (2018) as a story · 119 points

    HN discussion
  3. nicolaskruchten · 2015-03-01
    I once made a declarative, pure XML XSL-T system like this, no Javascript at all: http://nicolas.kruchten.com/content/2010/09/context/

    Comment linking /content/2010/09/context/

    on “Timesheet.js”
  4. danielharan · 2011-07-26

    Submitted Using make to Orchestrate Machine Learning Tasks as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  5. nicolaskruchten · 2014-02-25

    Submitted A Modest Proposal for Ethical Ad Blocking as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  6. cowpig · 2015-06-24

    Submitted Montreal 311 Service Requests – an analysis as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. brapse · 2011-09-08

    Submitted RTB Pacing: is everybody doing it wrong? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. nicolaskruchten · 2018-02-05

    Submitted Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. gjeffries · 2015-11-13

    Submitted Python Drag'n'Drop Pivot Tables and Charts in Ipython Notebook as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. TheAlchemist · 2015-09-10

    Submitted Drag'n'Drop Pivot Tables and Charts, in Jupyter/IPython Notebook as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. 9woc · 2022-12-22

    Submitted Apple Names Things as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. dsego · 2018-05-14

    Submitted Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. elsherbini · 2018-02-22

    Submitted Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. nicolaskruchten · 2016-08-01

    Submitted Direction Angrignon: a different kind of subway map as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. nicolaskruchten · 2015-09-10

    Submitted Drag'n'Drop Pivot Tables and Charts, in Jupyter/IPython Notebook as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. nicolaskruchten · 2012-01-05

    Submitted Peeking into the Black Box: Recoset's Real-Time Bidding Algorithm as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. nicolaskruchten · 2025-12-01

    Submitted Vibe CADing an Interactive Data Physicalization as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. nicolaskruchten · 2022-12-14

    Submitted How Apple Names Things as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. WallyFunk · 2022-10-18

    Submitted NotaScope: My data visualization research-in-progress as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Anon84 · 2022-03-18

    Submitted Machine Learning Meets Economics as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. nicolaskruchten · 2018-09-22

    Submitted Bridge-Optimizing Genetic Algorithm in Excel VBA as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. gk1 · 2016-08-04

    Submitted Direction Angrignon: a different kind of subway map as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. breck · 2016-06-08

    Submitted Graph Visualization vs. Dimensionality Reduction as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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