Is it possible to assist in writing and editing docs?

[OSuwaidi]

If any assistance is required in writing new pages, sections, or rewriting current ones in the docs, I would be more than happy to help!

[alshan]

Hi @OSuwaidi ! Thank you for willingness to invest time in improving of our documentation.

If you want to improve / rewrite something in existing pages, than you can fork this Github repository: https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot-docs
Then push your updates to it and create a pull-request in the orig. repository (above).

Any idea about new pages is a topic for discussion.

In our immediate plans we wanted to create a rich set of cook-book style notebooks and organize then into a user-guide kind of set of pages - from basics up to advanced topics.

For example, annotating stacked charts (see our recent discussion) is a rather an advanced topic. While your memories are fresh, you could try to compose a cookbook covering this area.

This directory contains various datasets we are using in demos: https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot-docs/tree/master/data

[OSuwaidi]

Hey @alshan ,

Sorry I was away on vacation and now I'm back.

Looking forward to working on this cook-book style notebooks you mentioned!

Any specific plans on what needs to be implemented or written?

[alshan]

Hi @OSuwaidi
As you were recently working on stacked bars/texts and as the whole ggplot "stacking" situation is still fresh in your memory, you maybe can create a cookbook covering this topic?

But as we haven't yet even started working on cook-books , you really can choose whichever topic you like better. Even designing a master table-of-content for the entire "user guide" (i.e. for a collection of cook-books).

For demo purposes we host a collection of datasets here: https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot-docs/tree/master/data
And we can expand it if necessary.

[OSuwaidi]

Hey @alshan ,
thanks for the guide. And yeah sure, that sounds great! But before I delve into the cookbook's details and implementation, covering each distinct topic:

1. is there a particular format that I need to follow (a particular structure, dos and don'ts, etc.)?
2. am I free to use any dataset from the collection you've provided (whatever suits the topic at hand), or do we prefer ones over others?

thanks!

[alshan]

is there a particular format that I need to follow (a particular structure, dos and don'ts, etc.)?

Yes indeed, we do have a cook-book template in the repo: https://nbviewer.org/github/JetBrains/lets-plot/blob/master/docs/cookbook_template.ipynb

IMO, the ToC there is unnecessary.

am I free to use any dataset

Yes, absolutely.

BTW, you may want to consider using Datalore as an alternative - it's very easy to share notebooks there and it allows to collaborate when working on a notebook.

[OSuwaidi]

Hey @alshan !

Thanks for the suggestion; I've already been using Datalore for a quite some time now, and it's great.

How can I share the notebook(s) on the cookbook's topics with you for your review, suggestions, and feedback?

(P.S. I really love the website's new UI and facelift, congrats! 🎊)

[alshan]

I really love the website's new UI and facelift

Great, thanx :)

In Datalore you can add a new workspace and then share it with me using igor.alshan@gmail.com to send an invite. Than I believe I will be able to see/edit any notebook in this workspace.