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+# 17. Views
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+A view, `scienting-view/1`, is a Vega-Lite specification whose `usermeta.scienting` pins its data: `{format, id, data, computation?}`.
+Each entry of `data` names a Vega-Lite data source, the dataset it is, the dataset's content hash and a resource, and the specification refers to it as `{"data": {"name": …}}`.
+A view is declarative JSON, so it is diffable, renders without studio code, and is easy for a model to write.
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+A view can also hold a computation: a Lode claim's implementation, by claim and pin, run in the browser by Pyodide, with Vega-Lite parameters bound to its inputs.
+That is how a reader drags a bond constant and watches the energy curve change beside the equation that defines it.