Distill wants to be a sandbox for what a scientific paper can be
By Anna Nowogrodzki
Sometimes it’s hard to understand someone else’s research through a static scientific paper. Across countless universities and companies, at whiteboards and cafeteria tables, you’ll find scientists in animated conversations explaining their research to one another, asking questions, playing around with each other’s data: in short, interacting. Across the internet in recent years, people have extended these explanations to include interactive graphics and code.
Now a web-only machine-learning journal called Distill aims to provide a formal home for these interactive graphical explanations, which in recent years have expanded to blogs and other online fora.
