So Christian got a wild hair last week (it happens round here) when he heard about a contest for new flash visualizations of digg using their API. For those that don’t know digg is a social networking news site largely for geeks (yep that means us). It has over a million users that “digg” stories out on the web that they like. Popular stories are propoted to the home page when they have enough diggs.
Data flows into digg like ants to a picnic, and they are always looking for new ways to look at or “visualize” the diggs. SurveyGizmo needed a fun little project for kicks and we decided to throw our hat into the ring with HEX.
The hexagonal bars represent individual stories. The higher they are the more diggs. What’s unique about our visualization compared to past ones (labs.digg.com) is that ours is sortable by category. You can see diggs happen in real time from those million+ users each time hex flashes.
Tags: API, digg, hex
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