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Implementing visualizations April 13, 2022


Creating visualizations with code is difficult. Examples are:

The difficulty of the coding task relies on the abstract nature of code. You have only 2 states: the code and the end result. Some ideas have appeared that seem to solve this:

However the best idea seem to use visualizations techniques to visualize the code. The most notable example of this are tools like:

Wisiwig tools like webflow tend to show the final result and let you tweak the elements by selecting and then changing parameters.

Excel provides a graph in a table.

Those tools let you see in a graph the code, but they have shortcomings: