Following in the footsteps of the MIT SIMILE project’s Exhibit tool (originally authored by David Huynh) and Thunderbird Seek extension (again by David Huynh), we are hoping to land faceted global search for Thunderbird 3.0 (a la gloda) in beta 4. I think it’s important to point out how ridiculously awesome the Seek extension is. [...]
Tagged facets, gloda, simile, Thunderbird, timelineThunderbird. With the global database, gloda. Using the exptoolbar extension. Using the protovis javascript visualization library. For reals! Not a prank! Just grab the most recent XPI or grab the repo. And be using a nightly (beta 2 might work?) What you are looking at: The exptoolbar search results page, augmented with a visualization. Each [...]
Tagged exptoolbar, gloda, protovis, ThunderbirdSure, a word cloud of your blog posts is cool… but what if you could take any search of your e-mail, and turn that into a word cloud? And then, if you click on one of those words, your search constraints would be revised to use the word you clicked on (and you’d get a [...]
Tagged exptoolbar, gloda, Thunderbird, visophyte-js, word cloudin context credits where credits due: thread arcs a la the nice people at the IBM CUE group the search view prototype is implemented by David Ascher. the positioning of the visualization is on me as a quick hack, though. the search view prototype is designed by Bryan Clark, and he has even better stuff [...]
Tagged exptoolbar, gloda, Thunderbird, visophyte-jsA primitive visualization augments the gloda “other messages by author” listing by showing the messages sent by the author over time. Messages are stacked by day. The currently selected message is in darkest blue and also very wide. Other messages from the same thread/conversation are in lighter blue and less wide. Messages not in the [...]
Tagged expmess, glodaAs all misguidedly-lazy programmers are wont to do, I decided that it would be easier to ‘enhance’ CouchDB to meet my needs rather than to rewrite visotank to use SQLAlchemy. Also, I wanted to understand what CouchDB was doing under the hood with views and try my hand at some Erlang. CouchDB as currently implemented [...]
Tagged CouchDBvisotank now has AJAX-loaded SVG graphics. The hooks are there to actually do something when you click on stuff, but it doesn’t do anything. The visualization is ripped from my visterity plugin for posterity; it’s not supposed to be new or exciting. The fact that the SVG is loaded via AJAX is new (visterity didn’t [...]
Tagged clicky, CouchDB, SVG, visophyte, visotankVisotank now allows you to select some authors of interest from a sortable list of contacts, and then show the conversations they were involved in. You get the previously shown sparkbars for the author’s activity. You also get sparkbars showing the conversation activity, with each author assigned a color and consistent stacking position in that [...]
Tagged clicky, CouchDB, mailman, sparkline, visophyte, visotankFirst, let me say that Pylons with its Paste magic is delightful; lots of nice round edges helped me get something simple up and running in no time, and using genshi to boot. The new tool, visotank, is ingesting the python-dev mailman archives (as previously visualized) and putting them into CouchDB. The near-term goal is [...]
Tagged CouchDB, mailman, sparkline, visophyteIt’s a radial e-mail visualization intended to be the basis for a “situational awareness” overview of your e-mail. I’ve added the beginnings of a ‘care factor’* (“do I care about this person/message?”) concept to messages and contacts, which is used to assist in focusing your attention only to messages/people you care about. Right now, the [...]
Tagged Posterity, radar, visophyte