2019/Brighton/display

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Display of tracking data was a session at IndieWebCamp Brighton 2019.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/display


IndieWebCamp Brighton 2019

Participants

Notes

  • How should we track data, how to store, how to display?
  • Should it be static?
    • It's easier to do things client-side. Javascript libraries are very good in this these days. -> drawing images / lines.
  • Downloading maps / tiles is often not allowed. This makes it harder to do stuff server-side (Caching is sometimes allowed)
  • Javascript is pulled in at the client, and that's allowed.
    • But it's a third party that you're loading in
  • gpx and kml are both XML... could they be transformed with XSLT on the fly to become dynamic maps?
  • Aaron Parecki also wants to talk about daily summaries of his data.
  • All the data he has now, is bound to a post.
  • This way he's never going to do steps, because he does not want a post per step, and he does not want the steps posted in batches, because there is no real batch-size.
  • Should this data go to his day-overview-pages?
    • Is this a post, that is sticked on the top of the day-overview-page?
    • Or is this an element on that page, that just lists data?
  • Extra complication: he travels a lot between timezones, so some days are much longer or shorter than usual.
  • Jeremy Keith shows four different summaries of his archives:
    • List of posts on the month
    • Circles on a graph
    • graph of posts as a line
    • even audio!

WordPress has day/month archives, but the data isn't aggregated by anything right now. WordPress stores data in key/value pairs based on the WordPress geodata format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Geodata Simple Location, written by David Shanske stores in this format on all WordPress objects and displays them.

Peter Molnar shows https://logstalgia.io/ for getting visuals out of an apache access log - just as potential inspiration for, say, end of the year video summaries

  • how do you combine data of different sources? e.g. from Compass or other tracking devices.
    • Aaron Parecki has logic in his micropub endpoint to get location data from Compass into his posts.
  • Peter Molnar stores metadata about photo's in the photo files itself (using EXIF metadata).
  • Aaron Parecki is thinking about using his new unlisted posts feature to store listening history from last.fm, so as not to clutter his timelines
  • Sven Knebel brought up the ideaof moving "tag-cloud" (treemap) visualisation for music data to show how listening to artists/albums/songs change through time

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