Thanks for joining today! If you missed that talk and would like to view the recording, here is the link: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7DTn9jHnI0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7DTn9jHnI0>* It has been released under a creative commons license.
If you have any questions about today's talk please feel free to get in touch with Yuri <[email protected]> and Dan <[email protected] >. You can check out past tech talk recordings at the MediaWiki YouTube page here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4wlhlN8RjP6_e_vMC4CTA If you have an idea for a future tech talk that you would like to nominate (or see what we have coming up), please add your suggestions here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event/TechTalks Please feel free to email me with your ideas as well. :) Thanks! On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Rachel Farrand <[email protected]> wrote: > Please join us for the following tech talk: > > *Tech Talk**:* Graphs! Visualize maps and data graphs live on Wikipedia > *Presenter:* Yuri Astrakhan and Dan Andreescu > *Date:* May 14th > *Time:* 2100 UTC > <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Graphs+&iso=20150514T21&p1=3915&ah=1> > Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7DTn9jHnI0> > *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office > Google+ page > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/cjm55bm8ifohmbpubdbvnvlb1n4>, > another > place for questions > > *Talk description: *Thanks to many great contributors, we are proud to > present the Graphs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo>... > because wiki pages with SVG and PNG images is so last century. Graph > extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph> allows content > authors to insert a data-defined graph or a map in a wiki page. Graph is > described using Vega visualization grammar > <http://trifacta.github.io/vega/> ( demo > <http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/>), and allows very complex data > transformations, filtering, and soon even animation & interactivity. > Combine that with the power of wiki template parameters and Lua scripting, > and the results could be stellar. Up to you really. Vega+d3 gives us a huge > list of charting options and maps with numerous projections and ability to > highlight individual regions. Lastly, graphs could be rendered either in a > browser (more interactivity), or on the server (faster load). Demo will be > served. > > Special thanks goes to milimetric, krinkle, Brion, and gwicke, without > whose help this project would have been a lot harder, and to Vega and other > open source teams who build such great libraries. > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
