https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2007.15904/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24744705urn:hackerpapers:mention:2007.15904:24744705Sun, 11 Oct 2020 09:40:53 GMT<p>The novelty is not the scroll-to-zoom interaction - it&#x27;s the creation of a declarative grammar for several visualization types (see Figure 2 for examples), and a system that implements this in a way that is scalable to datasets containing billions of observations. The contributions claimed in the paper are [1]: &gt; To summarize, we make the following contributions: &gt; •An integrated system called Kyrix-S for declarative authoring and rendering of SSVs at scale. &gt; •A concise and expressive declarative grammar for describing SSVs (Section 4). &gt; •A framework for offline database indexing and online…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2007.15904/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DB