Also the tiling effect might have something to do with it. There are multiple levels of zoom that get loaded and scaled as you zoom in.
For my thesis I had some similar ideas, but they were more abstract, sculpture-like. The user volume was a cylinder, with varying radii (mapped to activity) at different heights (time). The mappings you are talking…
Yes, great feedback. StackOverflow does something similar, it displays a badge on mouse over a user link. Very helpful for seeing the top tags where the user posts.
There is a shortcut: Press Q + click. Pressing Q turns on query mode for one click. I only included it that in the mouseover tooltips, fearing abuse. The server seems to handle it well, so query away. The info overlays…
For Github you have to enter the username. For Stackoverflow you have to enter the numerical userid which can be found in the url of your profile page. The Github API rate limiting made it impossible to keep up with the…
Also the tiling effect might have something to do with it. There are multiple levels of zoom that get loaded and scaled as you zoom in.
For my thesis I had some similar ideas, but they were more abstract, sculpture-like. The user volume was a cylinder, with varying radii (mapped to activity) at different heights (time). The mappings you are talking…
Yes, great feedback. StackOverflow does something similar, it displays a badge on mouse over a user link. Very helpful for seeing the top tags where the user posts.
There is a shortcut: Press Q + click. Pressing Q turns on query mode for one click. I only included it that in the mouseover tooltips, fearing abuse. The server seems to handle it well, so query away. The info overlays…
For Github you have to enter the username. For Stackoverflow you have to enter the numerical userid which can be found in the url of your profile page. The Github API rate limiting made it impossible to keep up with the…