Good catch! The examples page was split up into separate pages for Vega vs Vega-Lite, and I just updated the README to reflect this.
Thanks for taking a look and letting me know! Chris On Monday, December 17, 2018 at 12:45:34 PM UTC-8, Colin Yates wrote: > > Looks great! The link to examples (https://vega.github.io/examples) 404s. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 17 Dec 2018, at 20:41, Christopher Small <metas...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > Greetings! > > I'm happy to announce today the release of Oz 1.4.0. > > https://github.com/metasoarous/oz > > If you're on the Slack #datascience channel, you may have already caught > wind of some earlier versions. But in the interest of introducing it more > broadly, I'm posting an overview here for those of you who aren't familiar. > If you *are* familiar, you may still wish to scroll down to the bottom as > there are some new features available in the latest release. > > > *Vega & Vega-Lite* > > Oz is based on the fantastic Vega & Vega-Lite data visualization JS > libraries, and so to really understand what Oz has to offer, it's best to > start here. Vega & Vega-Lite are based on the seminal Grammar of Graphics, > an approach to data visualization which emphasizes writing declarative > descriptions of how properties of data should translate to aesthetic > attributes of a visualization. This approach guided the design of the R's > popular ggplot2 library, and has since influenced numerous libraries in > other languages. > > Vega & Vega-Lite take this vision further in two important ways: > > 1. In Vega & Vega-Lite, data visualizations are described using *pure > data*. This makes it more declarative, and confers all the benefits we > know and love about data-driven programming in Clojure. For instance, you > can send a chunk of Vega or Vega-Lite data over the wire from one program > to another effortlessly (as Oz does), and load it up in another process > without having to worry about the security concerns of executing someone > else's code. The bottom line is that Vega & Vega-Lite are philosophically > and technically compatible with "the Clojure way" (IT'S. JUST. DATA.). > 2. Vega & Vega-Lite take the Grammar of Graphics one step further by > introducing a Grammar of Interaction. You can declaratively describe the > addition of controls (dropdowns, checkboxes, etc) and interactive > properties of the visualization itself (click, hover, etc), and use the > data from these interactions to inform other parts of a visualization. For > example, you might highlight a set of points in one part of a > visualization, and display summary statistics about that selection in > another. This is facilitated in part by a general purpose dataflow > language > as part of the greater spec. > > Vega itself is highly customizable and flexible, but somewhat verbose and > not suitable for day to day visualization tasks. Vega-Lite steps in as a > somewhat higher level and more automated flavor which itself compiles down > to Vega. I have been using them together for a better part of a year now, > and can say without reservation that they are amazing. For years I've > longed for a ggplot2 from Clojure, and at long last I've found something > that to my surprise has not only matched, but truly surpassed the standard > bearer. In short, I'm sold. > > If you want to get a better sense of Vega, and Vega-Lite in particular, > I'd recommend this great talk from the creators at the Interactive Data Lab > at the University of Washington in Seattle: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uaHRWj04D4 > > If you're interested in a (mostly) more philosophical look at Vega & > Vega-Lite, and their connections to Clojure philosophy, I did a little talk > at a local Clojure meetup which you may find interesting: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXq5Bb40zZY&t=815s > > > *Oz* > > Oz itself is a very small and focused library, as most of the work falls > on Vega & Vega-Lite. It offers the following features: > > - A REPL API for for pushing vega and vega-lite data to a browser > window over websockets, for REPL-based data science workflows > - Client side vega and vega-lite Reagent components, for more dynamic > usage from ClojureScript apps > - A grammar for composing Vega & Vega-Lite together in the context of > html as hiccup, for document and dashboard generation > - Plot/document publishing/sharing features via GitHub gists, the > IDL's live vega editor <http://vega.github.io/editor>, and the new > http://ozviz.io > > The last two features in particular are where Oz really brings some > interesting value to the table beyond the role of a minimal wrapper. I have > found the ability to create and quickly share visualizations and scientific > documents from the comfort of my favorite text editor and REPL a godsend. > While the first several years of my programming experience were in notebook > environments (Mathematica, MATLAB, Sage, etc), I now find the experience of > writing and executing code from a web application a burden. Part of my goal > with Oz was to create a viable alternative to this workflow, and so far > I've been very pleased. The last piece to this now in place (the ability > to share hiccup+vega documents via http://ozviz.io), I'm excited to put > this work out more broadly and hear what the community thinks about this > approach to the creation and sharing of scientific documents. > > There are some other updates and improvements which those of you familiar > with Oz may wish to take a look at in the changelog, included updated Vega* > libs, and some smoothing out of the API and UI ( > https://github.com/metasoarous/oz/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md). Otherwise, > please see the project README for up to date information on how to use the > library: https://github.com/metasoarous/oz. > > > Thanks for your time! > > Chris > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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