Datavisualization.ch » Swarm http://datavisualization.ch Datavisualization.ch is the premier news and knowledge resource for data visualization and infographics. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:23:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Obama Wikipedia page editshttp://datavisualization.ch/showcases/obama-wikipedia-page-edits/ http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/obama-wikipedia-page-edits/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:15:22 +0000 Benjamin Wiederkehr http://datavisualization.ch/?p=929 This video features a visualization of people who’ve contributed to the Barack Obama page on Wikipedia. Users who have contributed a lot drift toward the center. It’s created by Jamie Dubs and built with Ruby.

The visualization is made using code_swarm: vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm
and the Wikipedia page history parser: github.com/jamiew/wikiswarm/

Music courtesy from Z-trip’s Obama Mix: htp://djztrip.com

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