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Visual Cinnamon
Personal blog · visualcinnamon.comdesigndata
Visual Cinnamon is a personal blog at visualcinnamon.com about design and data. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “I Created a Personalized Map with R, JavaScript, and More”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Visual Cinnamon, Nadieh Bremer's blog on data visualization, and her book on chart design. One commenter says the book gives useful techniques for thinking about data visualizations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Visual Cinnamon | Data Visualization Design & Data Art | Data made insightful, effective & beautiful through data visualization and data art
Most-linked posts?
- I Created a Personalized Map with R, JavaScript, and More2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-18
- Creating real-life based motion effects in D3.js visuals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-09
What Hacker News says?
Nadieh Bremer's blog: https://www.visualcinnamon.com/ And she co-wrote a beautiful book with Shirley Wu: https://www.datasketch.es/
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on “Ask HN: What is the best book on data visualization in 2021?”Submitted Creating real-life based motion effects in D3.js visuals as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHonestly in regards to data visualizations just look at others and copy them. For inspiration I heavily go to these two sites: https://pudding.cool/ https://www.datasketch.es/ One of the people behind data sketches recently came out with a good book on how to think regarding data vizs (and making them unique): https://www.visualcinnamon.com/chart/ Halfway through the book myself, lotta good techniques on how to thin…
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on “How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa”Submitted Data art posters about music (streaming) data for Sony Music as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReally depends on what you want to do, what tools are available to you, and how theoretically you want to get. For theory based academic papers, take a look through previous IEEE Vis conferences to see what's currently being presented -> http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/welcome For books on techniques and thinking of it, Nadieh Bremer (D3 and Data Art extraordinaire) has some good reviews -> https://www.visualcinnamon.c…
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on “Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning data visualization techniques?”Submitted Presenting the new d3.loom chart form plugin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing the Art in Pi – Visual Cinnamon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating real-life motion effects in d3 visuals – Visual Cinnamon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Animating (dashed) lines with Spirographs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The math and code behind chord diagrams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a personalised printable map using R and JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Created a Personalized Map with R, JavaScript, and More as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Design Process of “Why Do Cats and Dogs?” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using gradient for abrupt color changes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a D3 Voronoi grid on top of your chart to improve UX as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a D3 Voronoi grid on top of your chart to improve UX as a story · 1 points
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