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Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to footer jmp .home .posts .tags .about .cv Josh Pollock I'm a sixth year PhD student at MIT. I work on domain-specific languages for graphic representations.
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On the Interconnectedness of External Representations
We often think of external representations as separate islands. We have charts over here, diagrams over there, maps over there, and so on. I don't really view it that way. I enjoy finding bridges between these different islands. In fact I think there is t
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Pie Charts Considered Helpful (Sometimes)
The usefulness of pie charts continues to be a very contentious issue in VIS, because of the long shadow of Cleveland and McGill's experiments that led to VIS's modern theory of "effectiveness." I'm not really here to criticize that study, because I think
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How Do You Get Good at Programming Language Design?
I get asked a lot in the lab to help people out with API and language design. I wish I had resources I could point people at to learn better, but I don't. As with most (all?) skills, I know that it should be some combination of deliberate practice and dev
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Mindfulness and Abstraction Design
Formalism and Awareness Skill building helps us focus our awareness. Formalism is an incredible scalpel for sharpening thought. It forces us to be really precise about what we mean. There is nothing more formal than a (classical) computer program. It is e
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