[Authorea consultant here] This feature is quite exciting. Using JS based plotting capabilities like D3.js will allow users to do two things at once.
(1) Provide dynamic figures to represent data that is normally ineffective in static form and (2) provide the code and data that was used to create it. This helps others reproduce the results from the data to figure form, which is a feature that is definitely missing in PDF publications.
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[Authorea consultant here] This feature is quite exciting. Using JS based plotting capabilities like D3.js will allow users to do two things at once.
(1) Provide dynamic figures to represent data that is normally ineffective in static form and (2) provide the code and data that was used to create it. This helps others reproduce the results from the data to figure form, which is a feature that is definitely missing in PDF publications.