April 17, 2007 

Visualize Digg data in treemaps : 2 (now with pretty power)

I have finally finished my Digg Treemap application. The application is called DiggGraphr (couldnt call it DiggMapper since everyone expected a yahoo map to come up at some time). Anyway here it is in all its glory.
The application was developed in Flex since I am porting my treemap classes to Flex right now. However the core logic is still the same as my earlier As3 implementation.
You can right click to choose which page you want to go to (Digg or source). You can also click on the channels button to choose a particular channel you want to read. Drag the slider around to change the number of stories you want to see in the containers.

This application will die soon since today Digg clamped its api behind a application id and I dont have one yet. But before it dies, do Digg it if you like it.

Link: DiggGraphr

  • http://voisen.org Sean

    Very cool … I’ve found treemaps to be a very powerful visualization tool. This is reminiscent of Marcos Weskamp’s Newsmap, but for Digg.

  • http://digg.com/about/sbw Steve Williams

    Very cool! I’ve always liked treemaps. (I rely on windirstat all the time!) I’ll try to contact you by email to get it working again. Or feel free to email me.

  • http://ai.stanford.edu/~gjohn George

    very nice! any chance of releasing the flex visualization code as open source?

  • http://None Digg

    Yeah, It would be really cool if you released open source.

  • http://tylertalk.wordpress.com Tyler

    Cool site…like the set-up

  • http://klynch.com Kevin

    Cool — how about turning it into an Apollo application? Should just take a few minutes since you’re using Flex.

  • http://www.arpitonline.com arpit

    I still havent decided about the source code for the DiggGraphr. But turning into an Apollo app is definitely the next step.

  • http://None Digg

    I got the source.

  • Alex

    how did you get digg services to work? You have a Digg Api key?

  • http://www.arpitonline.com arpit

    Digg has formaly launched its new API. Yes I do have a key, just couldnt talk about it earlier :)

  • Leandro Alzate

    Really cool! I notice that the main containers (the chanels) are partitioned as areas of an equal size. Have you tried to size them as a proportion to the number of diggs, like the stories? -sorry for my poor english-

  • http://www.arpitonline.com arpit

    Hi Leandro,

    Yep thats what I am working on :) .