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Impressive work! I wonder: is the inertial tracking sufficient to cover for occasional occlusion of the markers?

I am delighted to have the chance to learn what the Hacker News community thinks about capitalism.

Pushes are failing for me. (To one repo, at least.)

I second the criticism of using violin plots here. A violin plot is a kernel density plot. It is designed to show a distribution at a scale much larger than variations in the data. Its raison d'etre is to smooth out and aggregate these small-scale variations.

But in this survey data, the values in the distribution are spaced far apart. The discretization is so large that the violin plots show meaningless and weirdly inconsistent curves between x-values which actually have data. A bar plot would be much clearer.

OP, I think you have done a fine job of styling your plots tastefully. But I recommend taking another look at the visual language you have chosen to communicate the data.

Thanks for the link!

FWIW, part of what I am trying to do with this gallery is show the power of images to illustrate /concepts/ (or ideas, or systems, or models, ...), rather than just /data/. There is a lot of overlap between "concept viz" and "data viz", in both topics and methods of presentation. But I still think there is a difference worth pointing out, especially since "concept viz" is a lot trickier and less developed.

I am impressed by how quickly the notebook goes from raw data to interesting patterns. Nice.

If I wanted to be picky about statistics (I generally do), I'd note:

1. Equating enforcement-related statistics with usage-related statistics is a dangerous thing to do. For example:

a. The rate of non-CRACK incidents in TENDERLOIN is probably low (disproportionate with actual use) due to the focus limited police resources put on crack.

b. I would bet that the high rate of WEED incidents in INGLESIDE / BAYVIEW vs, say, MISSION, is due to police using weed enforcement as a weapon against gangs (and minorities). I mean, people smoke a lot of weed in the Mission.

2. Putting "AMPHETAMINE"-related crimes under "METH" is inaccurate, as is putting "OPIUM"/"OPIATE"-related crimes under "HALLUCINOGENIC".

I'm surprised (and disheartened) to hear that psychedelics served as your gateway into harmful drug use. Can you tell a bit more about the role psychedelics played?

That article says nothing about preloading pages. The speed gains are purely a UI thing -- if you're clever about keeping submenus open even when the mouse leaves the submenu's entry in the main menu, you don't need to provide a delay for menu opening/closing.

Wow -- you've described my situation to a T. Except that you decided to do something about it.

I'm looking forward to trying this site and seeing if it works for me. Thanks!