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I was ★★ by this very simple and yet powerful interaction pattern that the NYT made on their election polls page; I knew I had to reproduce it. Lots of small details to figure out… now it's available as a reusable options transform for Observable Plot.
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Observable · Plot interaction: pointer-driven marksThe New York Times’ chart showing hundreds of election polls for the 2024 presidential election has this great interaction pattern, where an annotation describes the most recent data points. But as soon as the viewer starts pointing over the chart, they take control and the annotations very naturally follow the mouse. Here it is, as a video: Showing a default annotation when the user is not pointing is such an immediate and useful pattern that I want to replicate it with Observable Plot. As always, there ar
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@fil Congratulations. That's fantastic.

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