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by uxcolumbo 1333 days ago
Good points.

I'd like to hear more about UX for data scientists.

Do you mean creating custom user interfaces similar to the ones used in Tableau or PowerBI etc to explore large datasets?

Or just in general following good UI principles when showing data, e.g. Tufte, Few, etc?

Which interfaces / apps do you think do a good job in this regard?

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That's just it -- I don't think there are any great interfaces, yet. Jupyter scratches only the surface of what literate experimental coding could be.

I also have a back-of-napkin argument that the field is due for an invention as revolutionary to ML as the beizer handle was to vector art, or the spreadsheet was to money management.

I'm interested conceptually in eventually leveraging eg VR and sonification for aid in exploring very-high-dimensional datasets.

Meanwhile, yes, there is a lot of just nuts/bolts Good Design to worry about. :)

VR… great example. I’m curious to know whether and what kind of impact the immersiveness of VR will have on exploring large data sets.

I wonder what kind of UIs Deepmind created for their data scientist… similar to Jupyter or better.