Reminder: This tech talk starts in 1 hour On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Rachel Farrand <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please join us for the following tech talk: > > Tech Talk: *The Dashboarding Problem* > Date: October 6 > Time: 1900 UTC > <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+The+Dashboarding+Problem&iso=20141006T19&p1=1440&ah=1> > Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMwwLfvh5g> > IRC channel for questions: #wikimedia-office > Google+ page > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/ch8uuivq05nqejqlivrqni6v1n0>, > another > place for questions > > Talk description: > The Analytics team has been busy exploring dashboarding and visualizing > editor engagement data. We found that while most people focus on > visualization, data access and information architecture are just as > important and separate problems. > Mike Bostock solved visualization and the design team took care of > information architecture, so we built a dashboard around their work. > In this talk we share our learnings from developing dashiki, our new > dashboard stack. We will talk about why we believe a server-less javascript > app was the right architecture for the problem, how with about 900 lines of > javascript we transform data into Vega grammar, and how knockout components > helped us stay modular. > > While we'll look at some javascript, the talk is high level, about 30 > minutes long, and everyone that is interested in dashboarding, > visualization, and modularity is welcome to attend. > > Dashiki Code: https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-dashiki > > Editor Dashboard: https://metrics.wmflabs.org/static/public/dash/ > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
