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Geospatial map of Julia commits #5714

Closed papamarkou closed 10 years ago

papamarkou commented 10 years ago

You have probably noticed already that Github offers a new feature of visualising geospatial data. This practically gives a kind of "geographical heat map" of commits and pull requests, which sounds like a great visual representation of how the Julia development progresses across the globe over time.

If you find this feature exciting, would it be a good idea to discuss how to automate the inclusion of geodata in Julia pull requests or commits so that these commits can be geo-visualized in the Julia repos?

Here is the relevant link:

https://github.com/blog/1772-diffable-more-customizable-maps

ihnorton commented 10 years ago

See @jiahao's https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/ziSP5-ktOwc/CKVWG3H1qNgJ

jiahao commented 10 years ago

I don't see this as a Julia language feature in any conceivable form. Furthermore, associating a geolocation to every commit and PR via Github seems like a lot of unnecessary noise.

However, geolocating commits would make for a fascinating visualization project. I'd be really happy if someone wanted to take my visualization and make it more professional. One of the big issues in my visualization is the need to manually add locations (like the unfortunate @timholy, who's been left off the map because of the geocoder's incompetence). Another is the need to consolidate and replot overlapping dots.

ViralBShah commented 10 years ago

Not sure how we can include geodata in Julia commits or PRs. There is also this visualization of Github stars.

http://jrvis.com/red-dwarf/?user=JuliaLang&repo=julia

jiahao commented 10 years ago

For the sake of discussion, we could conceivably set up a commit hook through Github's API which runs a visualization script and posts the rendered output in a comment using a bot the way Coveralls does it.

papamarkou commented 10 years ago

I think I had opened this issue when Github first came up with the geospatial capability being overly enthusiastic about it but I admittedly confess that I don't see how this could turn into a language feature.

JeffBezanson commented 10 years ago

Agree, this stuff is cool but this is not really an issue.