visualization

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Visualization is display of data with visual representations, such as with graphics and charts, beyond raw spreadsheet entries or prose descriptions.

Writer Edward Tufte [1] has written classic books describing the history and practice of graphic visualization. He coined the term "sparkline".

Many IndieWeb members include sparklines to represent activity data on their websites.

Why?

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Graphical representations of activity and data are useful for understanding trends over time such as for streaks. Maps with overlaid data can tell a story as well.

IndieWeb Examples

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gRegor Morrill is experimenting with visualization of posting activity since 2016-08-25 (inspired by GitHub) -- see posting_graph#gRegor_Morrill
Joe Crawford has a CSS based graph of WordPress blog posting activity at artlung.com/visualization/
Joe Crawford created an interactive timeline of in-person IndieWebCamp events: User:Artlung.com/indiewebcamps-timeline-experimental based on Template:indiewebcamps-timeline
Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Silo Examples

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GitHub profile pages display a posting graph of git activity over time
- See calendar_heatmap#GitHub for details.
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Tools

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IndieWeb community members have reported success with using some visualization tools:

D3
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If you use a tool to make visualizations for your personal site, please add it to this list!

Why?

IndieWeb Examples

Silo Examples

Tools

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