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Show HN: GitHub Treemaps

33 points by tomiaijo 12y ago

diminish 12y ago
Most watched repos could be interesting too.
- tomiaijo 12y ago
  Unfortunately Github API does not provide means to search for most watched repositories. That being said, the front page listings are a small fraction of all repositories that I have treemapped so far (around 4000 at the moment). You can search all Github repositories from the search input, and queue them for treemapping if not explored already.
robinhoodexe 12y ago
Warning: can probably freeze you browser if you look at the most forked projects.
the_french 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand anything new by looking at this. Cool graphics, but is there some key point i'm missing?
- tomiaijo 12y ago
  Personally I was interested in seeing how much different committers have contributed to projects. For example, Linus Torvalds and Git: http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/36502/commits http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/36502... . Also it is quite interesting to see the different programming languages used in projects. For example, Git has almost as much Bash scripts as C code: http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/36502/languages http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/36502... .
  - peff 12y ago
    Sort of. All of the test scripts are written in bourne shell. There are ~10K lines of bourne shell in git itself, and ~136K lines of test scripts. That may be nitpicking, but I think it also goes to show that sometimes seemingly simple numbers or visualizations can miss subtle but important points.
binarymax 12y ago
Very Nice! Did you enter this into the data challenge? https://github.com/blog/1864-third-annual-github-data-challenge https://github.com/blog/1864-third-annual-github-data-challe...
- tomiaijo 12y ago
  Yep, let's see how it does :).
mixologic 12y ago
I really wish there was a good javascript implementation of cushioned treemaps (www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/ctm.pdf). The only implementation I've found so far is buried in a firefox plugin that gives a cushioned treemap of reddit comments(https://github.com/titusjan/plottit/blob/master/src%2Fchrome%2Fcontent%2Ftreemap.js#L563-L644 https://github.com/titusjan/plottit/blob/master/src%2Fchrome...), but I'd love to have one thats in a general purpose charting library. There is a 'cargo cult' implementation in jit (https://github.com/philogb/jit/blob/master/Source%2FVisualizations%2FTreemap.js#L756-L764 https://github.com/philogb/jit/blob/master/Source%2FVisualiz...) - where they just fake some gradients to make pretend cusions, but its definitely not a true cushioned treemap, and adds nothing to the visual interpretation of the hierarchical structure of the data. I guess I'll probably have to brush up on my JS skills and start blending things together.
realusername 12y ago
Looking at this reminds me how small some projects are when you put things in perspective. For example, most of the node.js project actually consists of less than ten developers. (http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/211666/commits http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/21166...).

33 points by tomiaijo 12y ago

diminish 12y ago

Most watched repos could be interesting too.

tomiaijo 12y ago
Unfortunately Github API does not provide means to search for most watched repositories. That being said, the front page listings are a small fraction of all repositories that I have treemapped so far (around 4000 at the moment). You can search all Github repositories from the search input, and queue them for treemapping if not explored already.

robinhoodexe 12y ago

Warning: can probably freeze you browser if you look at the most forked projects.

the_french 12y ago

I'm not sure I understand anything new by looking at this. Cool graphics, but is there some key point i'm missing?

tomiaijo 12y ago
Personally I was interested in seeing how much different committers have contributed to projects. For example, Linus Torvalds and Git: http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/36502/commits http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/36502... . Also it is quite interesting to see the different programming languages used in projects. For example, Git has almost as much Bash scripts as C code: http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/36502/languages http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/36502... .
- peff 12y ago
  Sort of. All of the test scripts are written in bourne shell. There are ~10K lines of bourne shell in git itself, and ~136K lines of test scripts. That may be nitpicking, but I think it also goes to show that sometimes seemingly simple numbers or visualizations can miss subtle but important points.

binarymax 12y ago

Very Nice! Did you enter this into the data challenge? https://github.com/blog/1864-third-annual-github-data-challenge https://github.com/blog/1864-third-annual-github-data-challe...

tomiaijo 12y ago
Yep, let's see how it does :).

mixologic 12y ago

I really wish there was a good javascript implementation of cushioned treemaps (www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/ctm.pdf). The only implementation I've found so far is buried in a firefox plugin that gives a cushioned treemap of reddit comments(https://github.com/titusjan/plottit/blob/master/src%2Fchrome%2Fcontent%2Ftreemap.js#L563-L644 https://github.com/titusjan/plottit/blob/master/src%2Fchrome...), but I'd love to have one thats in a general purpose charting library. There is a 'cargo cult' implementation in jit (https://github.com/philogb/jit/blob/master/Source%2FVisualizations%2FTreemap.js#L756-L764 https://github.com/philogb/jit/blob/master/Source%2FVisualiz...) - where they just fake some gradients to make pretend cusions, but its definitely not a true cushioned treemap, and adds nothing to the visual interpretation of the hierarchical structure of the data. I guess I'll probably have to brush up on my JS skills and start blending things together.

realusername 12y ago

Looking at this reminds me how small some projects are when you put things in perspective. For example, most of the node.js project actually consists of less than ten developers. (http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/211666/commits http://tomiaijo.github.io/github-treemaps/#/repository/21166...).