Data Literate Documents

Previous work: https://portaljs.org/data-literate for background

Desire

How do data literate technically?

Technologically the questions is how do we write text-driven documents that incorporate rich components e.g. data tables etc.

Options

• Notebooks (like Jupyter, Observable etc): these are more "Literate Programming" where coding comes first and then we make text blocks
• Markdown with iframes
• Markdown enhanced with support for (web) componets = MDX
• Process a raw source format (either markdown or define your own) using a toolchain e.g. pandoc or one you have rolled your own

Rufus 2c: I think the writing experience comes first so you want to prioritize that if you can. This is why going with markdown and markdown oriented

ASIDE: That said, if you had the resources a block-oriented system with editor etc would be great. However, we don't have thoese resources so I'd focus on enhancing markdown => go the MDX route.

Inbox

• Think through and research relationship to data-driven documents (d3!)
  • What was idea of data-driven documents
  • Is this data-driven or something a bit different (I'd say a bit different - hence the data-literate. Not about, necessarily, being driven by data but being enhanced with data. E.g. even a dataset presentation page might be more about the context and documentation than the data table per se, at least for more users)