First, 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, visophyteAn attempt to apply hidden topic markov models to e-mail to perform topic analysis has morphed into simply deriving (aggregate) word-frequency information for TF-IDF purposes. The e-mails I attempted to analyze from my corpus appear to simply have been too short and wanting for quantity to pull a rabbit out of the (algorithmic) hat. (I […]
Tagged Posterity, tfidf, visophyteFirst, there’s bad news on the shiny front. Although I made the SVG renderer capable of producing the gel-like circles, Mozilla’s SVG support currently lacks the features to do it as implemented. (Curse your full-featured-ness, Eye of GNOME!) Hopefully someday soon, it will support the synthetic BackgroundImage filter input (bug). Our show-and-tell for the end […]
Tagged contacts, Posterity, visophyteI have hacked up my local posterity bzr branch to process messages to extract contacts (and mailing lists). These contacts result in synthetic tags (to, from, and cc) applied to each message. My changes also include maintaining per-time interval (day, ISO week, month, year, ever) sparse counts for each tag. Visophyte (bzr trunk) has been […]
Tagged contacts, Posterity, sparkline, visophyteThe SVG renderer is in and brought with it much refactoring of the renderers. Cairo still works. But what does this buy us? It buys us a working clickable demo of posterity with the visterity plugin. And a second one too. (You probably need to be using Firefox for it to work. And one with […]
Tagged clicky, Posterity, visophyteExactly. It’s posterity, the exciting new Python mail client (as web server) with some mods (that’s my bzr branch) to support plug-ins slightly more and new chrome ‘decorators’. Into that we have plugged “visterity”, a new visophyte-ish thing. (Found in the visophyte bzr trunk under src/visterity-py) This works with the cairo renderer (so have python-cairo), […]
Tagged Posterity, visophyteVacation found me actually relaxing, but some pretty progress has been had. I forgot to push my 64-bit aggdraw patches to the laptop I brought, so I implemented a cairo renderer. This has resulted in some backend cleanup and refactoring, although there is more to do. This also allows for attractive use of gradients: The […]
Tagged Shiny, visophyteWhat’s new? Mailman archive processing! Bezier segmenting for more accurate arcs (thank you Luc Masonobe)! Pseudo-thread-arcs! (Actual thread arcs as visible on the whoa-awesome-but-why-aren’t-you-released-software ReMail project would seem to more practically squash ridiculously-large arcs and of course leverage the other side.) Node colors are per-author. The middle bottom thread demonstrates the need for a smarter […]
Tagged mailman, visophyte