Lee Byron
leebyron.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Lee Byron, a software engineer and designer, writes about data visualization, tooling like spec-md and testcheck, and productivity.
What HN saysHN commenters link his projects, including spec-md, TestCheck.js and the streamgraph work, as useful tools and examples of good visualization.
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- 1Spec Markdown4 people · 13 points · first shared 2015 · 4 comments on HN
- 2Streamgraph2 people · first shared 2008
- 3Four Thousand Weeks1 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 4Radiate Intent – Lee Byron1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 5How to Remove the Mac Desktop1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 6Stacked Graphs – Geometry & Aesthetics1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7Brewfile1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 8Breakups – The Visual Miscellaneum1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9TestCheck – Generative property testing for JavaScript1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 10Api1 people · first shared 2019
- 11Daylight1 people · first shared 2011
- 12Leap1 people · first shared 2022
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SloopJon · 2019-06-26
Hypothesis is my favorite. I also use TestCheck.js [0] for JavaScript and RapidCheck for C++ [1], but the Hypothesis generators seem the smartest, and they're easy to customize.
[0] http://leebyron.com/testcheck-js/api
[1] https://github.com/emil-e/rapidcheck
bnj · 2016-07-23
Just on a formatting note, it would be great to have a static generator that takes markdown input and generates this kind of html book with footnotes and references. Similar to [spec-md](http://leebyron.com/spec-md/). Anyone know of interesting projects along those lines?
LiveTheDream · 2010-11-04
You aren't stupid, but probably haven't encountered a streamgraph[1] before. It's just a stacked area graph where X is time (it's even labeled at the top) and Y is frequency of calls (thickness, not from the origin). I think it's an excellent and informative graphic, personally.
[1] http://www.leebyron.com/else/streamgraph/
smizell · 2015-07-02
Got curious about how the spec is built. Source said:
> Built with spec-md
http://leebyron.com/spec-md/
shashashasha · 2011-06-23
A similar visualization to what you're talking about is an old project by Lee Byron: http://www.leebyron.com/what/daylight/
herdrick · 2008-08-04
I really like the design sense here. But the decision to give some whitespace padding between items (sites, movies, etc.) means that you can't get an accurate idea of the totals for a given period. Compare to these: http://www.leebyron.com/else/streamgraph/
For the movie graphs, the visualizations are limited to the top twenty-five movies so it doesn't matter. But his traffic visualization shows all referrers. Those graphs would convey more information without the whitespace.
akkartik · 2022-10-08
Link for others: https://leebyron.com/til/leap