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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Please join us for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Graphs! Visualize maps and data graphs live on Wikipedia
*Presenter:* Yuri Astrakhan and Dan Andreescu
*Date:* May 14th
*Time:* 2100 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Graphs+&iso=20150514T21&p1=3915&ah=1>
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7DTn9jHnI0>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
Google+ page
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/cjm55bm8ifohmbpubdbvnvlb1n4>,
another
place for questions
*Talk description: *Thanks to many great contributors, we are proud to
present the Graphs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo>...
because wiki pages with SVG and PNG images is so last century. Graph
extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph> allows content
authors to insert a data-defined graph or a map in a wiki page. Graph is
described using Vega visualization grammar
<http://trifacta.github.io/vega/> ( demo
<http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/>), and allows very complex data
transformations, filtering, and soon even animation & interactivity.
Combine that with the power of wiki template parameters and Lua scripting,
and the results could be stellar. Up to you really. Vega+d3 gives us a huge
list of charting options and maps with numerous projections and ability to
highlight individual regions. Lastly, graphs could be rendered either in a
browser (more interactivity), or on the server (faster load). Demo will be
served.
Special thanks goes to milimetric, krinkle, Brion, and gwicke, without
whose help this project would have been a lot harder, and to Vega and other
open source teams who build such great libraries.