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Visualizing Wikipedia page edits

A visualization of people who’ve contributed to the Barack Obama page on Wikipedia. Users who edit a lot drift toward the center. Best watched full screen. Visualized using code_swarm (Processing) and my new Wikipedia page history parser Wikiswarm (Ruby). Instructions on how to make your own visualizations can be found in the README.

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Posted by: tbx on November 7, 2008 at 9:22 AM

slick!

looking fwd to more!!

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Posted by: NGinuity on November 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM

Nice

I wish the graphics were a little more detailed in the video. In full size they rendered really poorly, though.

Politics aside, that was one of the best mashup songs I have heard since the Ballmer "developers" techno mashup.

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Posted by: Umbrae on November 8, 2008 at 3:39 PM

@NGinuity

You can view it in HD on the vimeo site.

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