On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Ed Summers ehs@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:
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