A lot of data science visualizations are really throwaway web apps that aren’t intended to be public, or even cloud-based for private users. It’s not worth the infrastructure (and security risk) of locking down a hosting service to serve these given their short shelf-life. In fact, the web technologies employed are really only ‘borrowed’ from different scenarios where cloud or internet is important. It is only by accident that our visualizations were built with web-style technologies in the first place… so can we shift our thinking to take our head out of the clouds completely?

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