<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 15, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Michael Rosen <<a href="mailto:michael.rosen@gmail.com" class="">michael.rosen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">this is very helpful. Thanks for passing along some of the backstory. The visualization comment caught my eye:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px" class=""><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:sfmono-regular,consolas,"liberation mono",menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.0470588);border-radius:3px" class="">>writers.pclvisualizer</code></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px" class="">>Exists as a writer simply so that we can stick it on the end of a pipeline and visualize the results. But you >probably have a tool to view the results anyway, and this doesn't write anything to disk (should you be happy with >your result and want to save it).</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol";font-size:14px" class="">Hobu uses <a href="http://plas.io/" class="">plas.io</a> but ... uploading a file to a web app seems impractical for me. What do you use?</p></div></div></div></blockquote>For clarification, <a href="http://plas.io" class="">plas.io</a> doesn't upload the file anywhere. It reads your local files. The only thing that comes from the internet is the software to read it :)</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>