Mister Tufte, all RSS-like.
Poking around Edward Tufte’s forum, I noticed a thread Ask E.T. as RSS: New official feed. Not a new thread at all – the original question dates from March 10th, 2003 – but somehow I had missed it before.
To save you the trouble of poking through the whole thing, I’ll summarize:
- There’s an official feed, but it includes no content, only titles.
- There’s a third-party feed that includes full content. (I’m unsure how often it’s updated, however. I’ll note that when I know.)
On another note, if you haven’t seen his video sketches of wavefields, which is to say high density depictions of complex quantitative information, then you should do so. Right now, preferably.
These snippets from HD videos of water waves (very rich 3D time-series projected onto screen flatland) bring color, layering, cross-flows, overlaps, and animation to the sparkline arena. The idea is to deploy the entire sparkline field (the implicit box containing the sparkline) to carry very large amounts of data way beyond the standard sparkline.
And they happen to be gorgeous. A Connecticut pond, during a summer rainstorm.
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