https://www.jstor.org/stable/1165236
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED387520.pdf
#HowardWainer quoting #FarquharAndFarquhar #Farquhar from 1891 #SunlightFromACucumber #DataTables
With plot-pict, pict->bitmap and send ~ save-file I can stay in DrRacket and avoid the shell with ImageMagick. There might be a smart mathematical way to keep track of the positions of plot-elements, but for now I just look for worthy-looking connections and get their coordinates in GIMP. If I can learn the pict library I might be able to generate line drawing for GDM (fn:2) language-learning materials. It's interesting to play with a problem, the data table, that has been around for a long time: from 1891.... In 2009 I did a survey of the use of data displays in a number of leading journals and found that, in all of the sciences that I surveyed, the dominant form of data display was the table. This is despite the century-old warning of the brothers Farquhar that: “Getting information from a table is like extracting sunbeams from a cucumber.” (fn:1) Harada水俣病p11 Original Table https://i.snap.as/34YqEWK.jpg The DataVisualization plot and pict code: - https://write.as/bs2lr/plot...