Fabien Benetou's PIM | Wiki / Visualization

Principle

Minimize CognitiveDrag by helping to see the "big picture" through coherent and stable over time visualizations.

Potential models

3DVisualization
Graph
- information to display via
  - structure
    - explicit via .pageindex as already used in some recipes
    - implicit via ImprovingPIM#ImplicitLinking
  - editions coeditions.php, groupstats.php and groupkeypages.php
    - note that ReadingNotes#
  - consumption browser_queries, browsing_analysis.php and live_wikifest_report.php
    - suggested before in ToDo#LeverageConsumingInformation
- consider related graph as OwnWikisNetwork especially links to Repository:.
- style and effects
  - handle clicking pim_functions.php as described on this very page
  - color hashing reverted_pim_links.user.js String.prototype.ColorHash() (and CSS theme)
  - consider using PJS strokeWeight() also to bear meaning
- the main difficulty so far seems to still remain Wikipedia:Graph drawing#Layout_methods based on available information and the number of nodes
  - which is the most meaningful layout that is not too costly to compute?
- based on PJS e.g. gp_pageview_withingroup.php in particular but potentially also and graphprocessing.php
  - warning: the local wiki version (:GraphProcessingCircle:) used in I:Person/Person is the latest yet not commited, this will require serious refactoring to make it coherent and flexible
  - yet it might be better to start from scratch
display relevant non-page entities with their page presence
- e.g. BusinessModel Generation present in X pages
alluvial diagram for groups (e.g. projects) by periods of time
- thus facilitating merges and splits but also automatically displaying focii
- see the official alluvial generator with code and details on the .smap format
- consider also https://github.com/FlowingMedia/TimeFlow/
hyperbolic map
- Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping, Nature Communications April 2010
- use the dedicated class='wikilink' or internal links/backlinks mechanisms
- Wikipedia:Hyperbolic tree
  - Hypergraph java code to work with hyperbolic geometry and especially with hyperbolic trees.
    - including an example on Wiki using Wiki RPC interface
  - Walrus by CAIDA
    - Walrus uses 3D hyperbolic geometry to display graphs under a fisheye-like distortion.
- Visualizing the Structure of the World Wide Web in 3D Hyperbolic Space, Proceedings of VRML 1995
flows
- make a template that uses
  - per group folding
  - per page Path:/pub/visualization/edits_per_page/
  - origin : previously updated and created pages, author, etc
- example
  - (:pagelist group={$Group} fmt=#edits_per_page order=-time name=-RecentChanges:) deprecated since it is now based on ProcessingJS
  - ... and a bonus flower ;)
  - updated on each update at "low cost" with incron (based on inotify)
- consider also
  - MIT Simile Timeline
FoldingHierarchy
timeline per page
- ProcessingJS pim_functions.php
  - also using $first_edit = 1212192000;
    - thus could be interesting to make it a global variable since it is used already in ImprovingPIM#VisualDecayOfInformation
  - a neuronal spike visualization could also be interesting, especially for WikiBrainMapping
- previously display a red dot per edition for the page starting for the date of the wiki creation (summer 2008) to the present moment using GnuPlot

Phylogeny

(:phylogeny:)

Darwin's blind selection
- Campbell's blind selection retention
  - Chavalarias' Science phylogeny
Bernard's homeostasis
- Turner's extended homeostasis
Landauer's physical information

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Potential structures

BackEnd as the default flat list of all the pages present
WikiBrainMapping based on Cognition#WikiBrainMapping
LayeredModel as a list of categories from large epistemological domaines

Tools

Processing
- consider http://www.impure.com
Gnuplot
Graphviz

Visualization {Wiki}

Principle

Potential models

Phylogeny

Potential structures

Tools

See also