https://danyelfisher.info/blog daily 0.75 2025-11-19 https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2025/11/19/when-just-claude-it-isnt-enough-hyperparam-beats-bespoke-scripts-for-data-exploration monthly 0.5 2025-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/a6ad8142-35b6-4718-8f92-3410d980b07f/Screenshot+2025-11-19+at+13.07.03.png Data Blog - When "Just Claude It" Isn't Enough: Hyperparam Beats Bespoke Scripts for Data Exploration - Make it stand out The Hyerparam UI, and two columns. https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2025/8/6/the-most-useless-visualization-the-degree-degree-map monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/552aa31f-545b-4aa7-adc1-e6cda5dd1f07/hour_counts_F_annual.png Data Blog - Answering a Useless Question with the Degree-Degree Map - Make it stand out Total hours per year that the latitude is the same as the temperature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/3e20f141-c6ad-4d38-a75d-782a908bb4e0/image.png Data Blog - Answering a Useless Question with the Degree-Degree Map - Make it stand out Basking in 68 degrees at 68 degrees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1754520221274-6T7LOEPV8XOS9E2IAOBQ/Screenshot+2025-08-06+at+15.41.32.png Data Blog - Answering a Useless Question with the Degree-Degree Map - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1754520218736-EQR4E1M2YTT8JPJJIODN/Screenshot+2025-08-06+at+15.42.06.png Data Blog - Answering a Useless Question with the Degree-Degree Map - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/95a7f041-4b48-4881-b118-d202accd127c/Screenshot+2025-08-06+at+15.29.29.png Data Blog - Answering a Useless Question with the Degree-Degree Map - Make it stand out Hours per year that the temperature is freezing (0-1 degrees C) https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2024/10/22/designing-for-genres monthly 0.5 2024-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1729618385359-DCS9NG3DUXA95BJF6BMT/Designer.jpeg Data Blog - Designing for Genre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1729618384110-1R451H2V9PZZKV29GY9Y/Designer+%281%29.jpeg Data Blog - Designing for Genre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1729618385164-W4CXKHO70M507JEY0A31/Designer+%283%29.jpeg Data Blog - Designing for Genre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1729618562316-RBIRC6WLJUOEL3ZX41VV/Designer+%284%29.jpeg Data Blog - Designing for Genre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/a64ccd03-2b89-4b66-accf-7266293066e0/Screenshot+2024-10-21+at+1.34.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Data Blog - Designing for Genre - Google Sheet’s Chart Editor Google Sheet’s “Chart Style” menu combines exploratory and presentation features. https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2024/9/19/visualization-genres-past-the-big-three monthly 0.5 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/cd41a912-0035-414e-9413-23eec2064eef/trace-detail-view-waterfall-representation.png Data Blog - Visualization Genres: Domain-Specific Visualization - Make it stand out The Honeycomb.io trace viewer showing a single trace's as a "waterfall" visualization. The trace view helps show that no single operation within the trace seems to be particularly slow -- no bottom-level rectangle takes up a lot of the total duration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/5ff60a38-6e35-4d0e-9e17-83dbff75c686/Screenshot+2024-10-09+at+1.02.07%E2%80%AFAM.png Data Blog - Visualization Genres: Domain-Specific Visualization - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/2c949e3e-20f9-4660-9d85-2d1a92b96eaf/Screenshot+2024-10-09+at+12.40.13%E2%80%AFAM.png Data Blog - Visualization Genres: Domain-Specific Visualization - Make it stand out Microsoft's organizational chart, visualized as a treemap, and with membership on three mailing lists as highlights. (Bicyclists; users of a gaming development toolkit; and people interested in the "Garage" makerspace.) Sales and marketing groups are on the left side of the map, product groups on the right side. These overviews show how interest in a topic may be linked to a group's area of interest. https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2024/9/18/visualization-genres-monitoring-and-dashboards monthly 0.5 2024-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/9aaefe5a-908c-48d9-93fc-8507f2126086/Screenshot+2024-09-18+at+4.37.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Data Blog - Visualization Genres: Monitoring and Dashboards - Make it stand out Four dashboard exemplars showing different use cases. From Sarikaya et al's What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards? (IEEE VIS 2019). https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2024/9/18/visualization-genres-presentation-1-nx2yy monthly 0.5 2024-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1524431688732-8Q55DZ9PO26V5WDOZ61X/recycling4x3.png Data Blog - Visualization Genres: Presentation - Make it stand out "HBO Recycling Program, Hanpuku version" (Detail, adapted from Craig Robinson's original.) This visualization shows the complex connections between stars who appear in multiple HBO shows. We applied a circular layout to show how Illustrator and D3 complement each other. https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2024/7/08/visualization-genres-exploration monthly 0.5 2024-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/e2ff531a-1135-47c4-9add-4d2cf27c0ec1/jupyter-notebooks-pairplot-results.jpg Data Blog - Visualization Genres: Exploration - Make it stand out A Python Notebook showing a pairplot — the combinations of dimensions — to rapidly explore distributions and relations. https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2024/6/30/understanding-visualization-genres-introduction monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1719805067184-OHKT7Q55PGU4PAKKCNBO/image1.png Data Blog - Understanding Visualization Genres https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1719805067322-K44Q3PC4RF07724VX1JD/image2.png Data Blog - Understanding Visualization Genres https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1719805068146-6T90L6X5U3E5P8HJP2RO/image3.png Data Blog - Understanding Visualization Genres https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2024/3/4/accelerate-product-adoption-with-the-diffusion-of-innovations monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/4252079e-ead9-4a53-83e6-f32f08e1a3e0/Untitled+presentation.png Data Blog - Accelerate Product Adoption with the Diffusion of Innovations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2024/2/21/making-sense-of-automation-with-cmms monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/ca06c9cf-afe5-483d-8741-25adf3158c54/fivestages.png Data Blog - Making Sense of Automation with Maturity Models - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2024/2/19/how-to-ask-the-right-question monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/27b47f68-55e2-4408-9746-f810346cc19a/unnamed.png Data Blog - How to Ask the Right Question - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/beda6390-b328-4aae-8c84-58a9e20406d1/notebook.png Data Blog - How to Ask the Right Question - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2023/11/6/ushering-into-production monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/408c7f23-ac9d-452a-adca-56e343e663db/SLO6-overall.png Data Blog - Growing into Production - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2023/10/5/measure-design-try-on-building-new-things monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/f1a77c48-0d6f-4acf-9864-208edddfb973/measure+try+design.png Data Blog - Measure, Design, Try: On Building New Things - Make it stand out The Measure - Design - Try cycle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1696554525668-TD2EEKYTMG105KIX5S0C/image2.png Data Blog - Measure, Design, Try: On Building New Things - Soylent "actogram" view A visualization from Soylent, showing communication patterns over time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1696554526701-MTPQF3IDDPBJ17BH0NMF/image1.png Data Blog - Measure, Design, Try: On Building New Things - Hotmap The Hotmap visualization shows activity logs from search patterns at Microsoft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/1696554525727-NPSZKZ874W0Y6PZJ0Z9H/image3.png Data Blog - Measure, Design, Try: On Building New Things - Honeycomb BubbleUp Honeycomb’s BubbleUp helps identify and explain anomalous data https://danyelfisher.info/blog/2023/7/18/a-honeycomb-story-five-different-kinds-of-bar-charts monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/99c8e117-ab5a-4a3b-9402-b1228ccb6484/image2.png Data Blog - A Honeycomb Story: Five Different Kinds of Bar Charts - Make it stand out One of the first sketches of comparing distributions in Google Sheets, comparing anomalous (orange) data to baseline (blue) data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/560fb1d4-cff7-404d-909b-18eb75cd0ff4/image3.png Data Blog - A Honeycomb Story: Five Different Kinds of Bar Charts - Make it stand out An image from a python notebook prototyping BubbleUp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/aa76e738-45f3-46b9-a800-2fef43d3ecba/image6.png Data Blog - A Honeycomb Story: Five Different Kinds of Bar Charts - Make it stand out The BubbleUp interface today. It’s gotten a lot better then that first Python notebook, and shows data in a much easier-to-understand way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad8109d45776ee873b54415/8326989b-d9d7-42bc-913b-a12420c0b6a3/image12.png Data Blog - A Honeycomb Story: Five Different Kinds of Bar Charts - Make it stand out A graph showing 99th percentile latency for requests to a web service. Note that latency gradually increases to 2 seconds, then drops dramatically. 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