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The Serial Mentor
Personal blog · serialmentor.com/blogdatascience
The Serial Mentor is a personal blog at serialmentor.com about data and science. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Fundamentals of Data Visualization – online book”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2017 post explaining why 'joyplots' were renamed ridgeline plots, and for a 2014 post-publication review of an article comparing document preparation systems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Science, Writing, Fitness, Nutrition, Professional Development
Most-linked posts?
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization – online book5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-08-09
- Goodbye Joyplots3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-07
- How not to compare document preparation2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-31
What Hacker News says?
- nl · 2020-06-24
Unfortunately, when the name “joyplot” took off, nobody in the datascience community was aware of the origin of the name “Joy Division”. As described in the book House of Dolls, joy divisions were groups of Jewish women in Nazi concentration camps kept for the sexual pleasure of soldiers. The band Joy Division took their name directly from this book and even quoted from the book in one of their early songs. https://…
Comment linking /blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots
on “Exploration of Generative Art” Submitted How not to compare document preparation as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe R community started out calling these "joy plots" (after the Joy Division album) but then people found out about the association of "joy division" with the Holocaust ( https://serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots ) and so now they're called ridgeline plots.
Comment linking /blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots
on “Peak map: Visualize the elevation of any area using a ridgeline chart”Submitted Goodbye Joyplots as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd another: http://serialmentor.com/blog/2014/12/27/post-publication-rev...
Comment linking /blog/2014/12/27/post-publication-review-of-the-plos-one-paper-comparing-ms-word-and-latex-how-not-to-compare-document-preparation
on “An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems in Academic Research”Submitted Fundamentals of Data Visualization – online book as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlready discussed, and issues with the article itself are identified in http://serialmentor.com/blog/2014/12/27/post-publication-rev...
Comment linking /blog/2014/12/27/post-publication-review-of-the-plos-one-paper-comparing-ms-word-and-latex-how-not-to-compare-document-preparation
on “An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems in Academic Research”Submitted Fundamentals of Data Visualization as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fundamentals of Data Visualization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fundamentals of Data Visualization as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Fundamentals of Data Visualization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fundamentals of Data Visualization as a story · 1 points
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