On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
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.
Thanks!
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. :)
By images did you mean images uploaded to the commons, or hitting the API to get an image associated with the page? Or both? I like that idea of showing interactions between people working on the same pages. Since I'm already using redis this might not be too hard to do. I'll have to think about it a little. I also liked SJ's idea of a three column display: all edits, edits >= +-100 characters, edits >= +-1000 characters. Although I'm not sure about the delay part.
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!
Ok, I've switched to using the character language code, and increased the number of language channels it is monitoring to 36.
//Ed