Visualizing Mozilla
Dave Bottoms just put up a couple of interesting posts about a project he and I have been working on with Mike Morgan, Les Orchard and the folks at Stamen Design. The general goal, as he explained, is to create a visual representation of the Mozilla community using data feeds from sources like Bugzilla, blog posts, Twitter tweets, code check-ins and more.
Thanks to input from the visualization masters at Stamen and lots of heroic work by Mike and Les, we’re off to a good start on this but are looking for help from the community to make it even better.
We have lots of data flowing through Les’ Lizard Feeder already, but need a visual concept to bring it all together. Stamen had a good idea they called “authors vs entries”, which sorts the data by linking individuals with the actions they’ve taken (bug fixes, blog posts, etc). There’s a ton of potential with this, but we haven’t had a chance to flesh it out yet. For reference, here’s a very rough, early-stage prototype Stamen put together to illustrate the concept:
Feeling inspired? Want to take a crack at this? If so, be sure to read Dave’s posts and then comment on the bug with your thoughts. We’re looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
January 26th, 2009 at 11:43 am
[...] For more details behind this project, head over to my blog, or see one of the early prototypes posted on John Slater’s blog. [...]
January 26th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Here’s a starter greasemonkey script for hacking on the live lizard feeder:
http://gist.github.com/53159
Have fun!
January 26th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
[...] well covered in the bug. Creative Director John Slater and design firm Stamen Design put together a whole different view of this data set, focused on aggregating across people while streaming that goes well beyond this bit of interaction [...]
January 27th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
[...] For more information about this project, check out the original announcement, the post at David Bottoms’ weblog, or see one of the early mockups posted on John Slater’s blog. [...]
August 31st, 2009 at 7:20 am
[...] seem like a good starting point to work with? If not, what do you think works better? I know other people are also interested in this topic, so maybe we can get together and figure out how to move forward? If this [...]