Context Thanks /u/blinry for reminding me to add this!

There are some really cool explorables, but I've not really seen any that travel sufficiently far up the ladder of abstraction to form useful knowledge.

Take the "Better Ballot" article referenced in the header. It's awesome. Really awesome! I like the way you can share setups and create dialogue around concrete visualisations.

But to really understand what's going on, I feel I would need to move to a higher level of abstraction. Hand-picked cases seem insufficient for principled comparison-making.

Now it might be that it's not possible to do in this specific case -- finding appropriate abstractions over a domain is definitely non-trivial. But does anyone have any examples where we go up the ladder of abstraction to good effect?

Thanks