(Cross-posting in case there are people not on the public list, but on
the private list)
Hey all,
As you probably know, I've been tasked with building a data
visualisation platform that works. I opted to look at third-party
software rather than wrestle with Limn, for maintenance and speed
reasons.
Still a long way to go - mostly on the back end, hooking up connectors
to get the data sucked into Labs from our EventLogging schemas - but
yesterday's work has produced something that looks a bit like
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Dashboard_example.png
Key takeaways from this:
1. The text, as it says, is in Markdown. If there are problems, it's
incredibly simple to fix. We can list outages and inaccuracies,
explain where the data comes from, all the nice stuff
2. The visualisation is embedded JavaScript and can be resized, zoomed
in- and out-of and highlighted easily.
3. Key statistics are called out in highlighted boxes using common
iconographic elements.
4. It's reactive. IOW, if a new dataset is loaded on the server side
with more up-to-date numbers while you're reading, no problem: the
figures and graphic will, too.
5. The entire thing is 60 lines of code ;)
As the dropdown menu on the left suggests, there will be a lot of
different panels and panes covering data from our different platforms,
and subsets of that data. If you have suggestions for things from the
EventLogging schemas you'd specifically like, let me know and I'll
build them in!
(Moiz: you are absolutely welcome to have at the CSS and colour scheme, too :D)
--
Oliver Keyes
Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
