Thoughtful critique. Interactive explorations invite more reading by more people, which is a virtue, but such presentations do not necessarily lead to further insights. That was the lesson of software visualization research. Deeper discoveries come from working on a problem.
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This is a thoughtful new review of the “interactive explanation” milieu: distill.pub/2020/communica. I’m a friend of the format—I’ve written articles like this myself—but I worry it’s trapped in a limited framing, selling short the potential of computational representations.
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