Michael DeHaan <mdehaan(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I think data is obviously one great way to expand -- another way to
expand is in terms of new visualizations that can be produced. Namely,
making it possible to compare projects on the same graphs (or, well,
actually having graphs again now that we've moved away from Google
Chart), and providing new ways to access all of the data at a glance. If
you're interested in doing this, I don't see a problem with you either
focusing on data collection, visualizations ("the grapher"), or a little
of both.
So, if you want to think about visualization ideas, those too, would be
useful.
I think you'll find there are a lot of different places we can take this.
--Michael
I've been thinking about visualization ideas as well, and thinking that it might be
most valuable to concentrate on getting some solid visualization tools for the mailing
list data we already have.
Besides the original pie charts, it could be useful to plot the projects based on their
communities (which has the largest population, which has the most/least percentage of
Fedora people). Being able to see these visualizations change over a specified time would
be very valuable, I think, especially if you could see them change fluidly. I was inspired
by this TED talk on stats and data (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w), starting
from 4:00 and going to 5:15, or starting from 5:00 and going to 5:15 if you just want the
Instant Replay version.
So I propose that I'll make my focus data visualization so that you get some payoff
for the work you've already done on collecting the data and show off what's
possible with ekg. I agree with what Yaakov said, that "What is most relevant at the
moment is the kinds of analysis we can do."
Kasia
Katherine "Kasia" Hayden
Bennington College, Class of 2011
312.576.8175
khayden(a)bennington.edu