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Comment by poppingtonic

9 years ago

I'm really loving the choice of articles, especially since you're just getting started.

Edit: I'm referring to the journal, not the author.

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colah3  9 years ago

Thanks! We're just lucky to have authors like Gabe (@gabrielgoh) come to us with incredible articles. :)

  • stared  9 years ago

    How to know if an article would fit there? For example, I was thinking about adjusting my http://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html (already with some interactive components) or writing about RoI polling (https://deepsense.io/region-of-interest-pooling-explained/ - by my colleague, but more interactive).

    Would it be on-topic? (After changing style accordingly.)

    • colah3  9 years ago

      Please check out our journal policies page: http://distill.pub/journal/

      In brief, Distill needs to see three things to publish an article: outstanding communication, advancing the dialogue, and scientific integrity. Distill often works with authors to help them bring their articles up to our standards.

      Additionally, as a primary publication, Distill will not republish content already published elsewhere, or publish "translations" of papers where someone rewrites the content of a previous paper. (This relates to advancing the dialogue.)

      If you reach out to editors@distill.pub, we're happy to discuss pre-submission inquiries about journal scope and related topics.

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  • brut  9 years ago

    I'm curious, did the author write the whole article including figures, or did someone else give life to the figures?

    I can see this type of interactive journal becoming very popular in other fields, but not if the author has to create the diagrams him/herself.

    • gabrielgoh  9 years ago

      Author here - I've created all the diagrams, though I've received really helpful editorial input from Shan Carter and Chris Olah. If you feel like doing some archeology, you can see for yourself the really ugly drafts in the github history - it isn't pretty!

      I think these visualizations are deceptively easy to create. Javascript is a powerful language with many libraries, and in my experience, it just took a few nudges at exactly the right spots from Shan to go from an idea in my head to fully fledged diagram in distill. The tricky part has always been figuring out what to visualize, and if you're a researcher with an clever idea for a visualization, I recommend you reach out to the distill team.

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jkimmel  9 years ago

Likewise, I'm very impressed with the early article selection. The site itself is beautiful, and interactive figures like the one at the top of this link are incredibly helpful.

Overall -- huge fan!