On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Ed Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:
I've been looking to experiment with node.js
lately and created a
little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language
wikipedias in real time:
http://wikistream.inkdroid.org
That's pretty cool -- and having the source all ready to be shared on github
is *super* cool. :D Having good starting points for other people to build
real-time displays and visualizations on can be a big help in jumpstarting
some really cool innovation.
I'd love to see some more active visualization that also include images, and
if it's possible to show interactions between multiple people working on the
same pages that could be super killer. :)
As noted in this thread already, use of flags to represent languages can be
problematic -- there's a nice overview of the issues here:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html On the other hand, flags can be a
fine way to represent 'country of origin' in visualizations/reports that
estimate where edits are being made from based on IP address etc -- so keep
em in mind!
-- brion