Visualizing GitHub repos

Most people are familiar with the file-and-folder view. Sort alphabetically, date, or file type, and scroll up and down. This works well when you know what you’re looking for, but sometimes you could use a quick overview of what a codebase looks like. Amelia Wattenberger for GitHub used packed circles.

The fun part is towards the end where you can enter any repo to see what it looks like.

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GitHub contribution graph to show burnout

A quick annotation by Jonnie Hallman on Twitter: “GitHub is really good at visualizing burnout.”

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GitHub is meant to track code

Jen Luker noted, “As amazing as @github is, it is a tool designed to track code, not people. I’m sharing my annotated GitHub history to show you what it can’t tell you about a developer.”

Data as footprints? Footprints can tell you where someone went, but you have to evaluate surroundings to figure out what he or she did along the way. And there’s a lot that can happen between when the footprints set and when you find them.

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Code as microorganism

Codeology

Taking a step beyond 2-D glyphs, Codeology depicts GitHub user activity based on what they have contributed as 3-D objects made of ASCII characters.

The application pulls data from GitHub's public API and creates visuals using WebGL, Three.js, and GLSL Shaders. Shape and color represent an individual language, with size being proportionate to how many characters of code were written.

I don't know if it was intentional, but every visual looks like a microorganism. Pretty cool. [via Waxy]

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Code as microorganism

Codeology

Taking a step beyond 2-D glyphs, Codeology depicts GitHub user activity based on what they have contributed as 3-D objects made of ASCII characters.

The application pulls data from GitHub's public API and creates visuals using WebGL, Three.js, and GLSL Shaders. Shape and color represent an individual language, with size being proportionate to how many characters of code were written.

I don't know if it was intentional, but every visual looks like a microorganism. Pretty cool. [via Waxy]

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Anaesthesia Response, Controlling Cas9, and How to Use Github: the PLOS Comp Biol January Issue

social_norms_in_small_scale_societies-5-690x320AddThis Sharing Buttons above Here are our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology January issue: Brain Connectivity Dissociates Responsiveness from Drug Exposure during Propofol-Induced Transitions of Consciousness Scientific understanding of how brain networks generate consciousness

When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online?

The Web was invented to enable scientists to collaborate. In 2000 the Los Alamos National Laboratory commissioned me to write a progress report on web-based collaboration between scientists, Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration. Blogs, social media, and Open Access publishing of … Continue reading »

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When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online?

The Web was invented to enable scientists to collaborate. In 2000 the Los Alamos National Laboratory commissioned me to write a progress report on web-based collaboration between scientists, Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration. Blogs, social media, and Open Access publishing of … Continue reading »

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Tron-style dashboard shows Wikipedia and GitHub streams

GitHub stream

As a fun learning exercise, Rob Scanlon made a dashboard that shows GitHub and Wikipedia changes in the style of graphics in Tron: Legacy.

Hello User. This is a reproduction of the graphics in the boardroom scene in Tron: Legacy. If you have not seen that movie, check out this background material on the making of that scene before proceeding.

To make this a bit more fun, the boardroom is configured to visualize live updates from Github and Wikipedia, with more streams to come. Click on a stream in the window to the right to continue.

Type "cd github" and "run github.exe" for maximum pleasure.