Yay, thanks everyone :)

It's really nice to see that the effort put into this project is recognizable (I found the jury comments to sound quite flattering). There are still plenty of details where the application can be improved and made more user friendly so I'm looking forward to do a bit more polishing and see how it will compete in the next stage.

The biggest gripe I personally still have with the app is performance. Especially with the items dataset it's just far from what can be called "smooth". Unfortunately there is not very much I can do about it with the current architecture and right now I don't think it would be worth the resources required unless one could expect at least a 3 or 4-fold increase in performance. And after all, it's still a javascript app - I think 10 years ago one would probably be seen as a little crazy when proposing to create a dynamic viz of 2 Million datapoints in javascript. Thats also an interesting way to look at it. :)

Thanks for the support, looking forward to proudly wear my Wikidata shirt ;-)

Georg

On 06/11/2015 04:32 PM, Scott MacLeod wrote:

Congratulations, Georg and All!

Scott

On 7:12AM, Thu, Jun 11, 2015 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Markus Krötzsch
<markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
> Whew! Congratulations, Georg (I know how much work you put into it!), and
> good luck with the next stage ... Also congratulations to the other
> finalists, and thanks, Jan and Wikimedia Sverige, for organising this.

Big +1. Congrats! :)

Cheers
Lydia

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