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Introducing the New GitHub Graphs

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252 pointsphilipp-spiess37 comments

This is nice and all, but PLEASE fix the network graph! It's the most important one and it's the most useless at the moment.

EDIT: Illustrated/Ranted about here: http://gun.io/blog/github-network-graph-is-broken/

Especially for organizations. Individual contributions within an org appear as a single user on the network graph. Not as useful as it could be.

I'm so angry at GitHub! They make me feel so unproductive. Somehow jealousy is always my first reaction when I see a new update from them.

To be fair, they're doing really well, and their base service is already humming along. All they can do is support, tweak, and release features. Pretty good position.

Why is the traffic graph never working? I was excited to hear the graphs were updated and assumed the traffic graph would finally be working again, but no it is still "temporarily down."

We noticed a problem with it after deploying- just working out a few kinks with it before we ship it again.

d3 is pretty amazing. I think we'll see a huge jump in things built with it in the next few months.

Until you send it large data sets (and this applies to any client side rendering) and it uses 100% of a core and causes the browser to hang (go checkout the rails or other large graph pages on github)... There has to be better solutions out there that Github could use

(Careful with the link)

This page https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/impact freezes FF12 on W7/x64 for several seconds, and then FF asks if to continue running the script or if to stop it. Continuing re-freezes Firefox.

Yes, I opened that link a few weeks ago (out of curiosity). Every single browser on Mac (all of them were either latest beta or stable) crashed.

Hm, I was able to close the tab after telling Firefox to stop the script. However, my browser certainly was frozen for several seconds before I was able. FF12 on OSX.

I built http://gitego.com a few months back to keep track of watchers, forks, size, and issues over time. I'm glad they're enhancing the code-related graphs. Stats for those would be much harder to gather externally.

Edit: Looks like Metior was tracking code stats externally from GitHub as well http://metior.herokuapp.com/.

Anyone have any idea what they are using to build these graphs. Looks kinda like D3 but I'm not really sure.

Yeah, it's d3, the article says "The new GitHub graphs are built with the amazing d3 library by @mbostock".

Yep, D3.

I don't understand what Punchcard is showing... is it what day-of-the-week commits are pushed on?

It is a representation of the amount of commits at certain times of the day during the week.

Weekday and hour of commit times (relative to the commiter's timezone; I remember the previous version used some GitHub timezone). Not sure if they use CommitTime or AuthorTime.

GitHub used to have a graph that showed clones over time as well, but they took it out.

In general, I wish GH had more data you could pull out about your repo through the API. That would allow me to track my own metrics.

Thanks for these, do appreciate the work so far.

I was really hoping for a graph of commits as well though, ala git log --graph . I know the network graph is intended for this, but it fails pretty badly.

It looks like only commits on branch 'master' are reflected in these graphs.

Not master but the selected default branch. A dropdown or so would be nice.

Thank you Github! I was just hoping that the graphs would get updated. This gives me better oversight into who/what/where/when. Although perhaps a bug - my punch card graph is empty.

I've been hoping that they would add some more graphs. Looking at either how much impact (or lack of) I made in the last week is one of the tools that I use to keep to myself motivated

This is a huge improvement - especially the Contributors chart is plain awesome and they finally load fast. On the other hand I still don't see any sense in the Punchcard.

I totally agree with you. The traffic chart is also very exciting.

The punchcard might conceivably be useful for attempting to coordinate with the developers at the time when they're most active. Other than that, it does sort of feel like they just had a bunch of data lying around that they felt really needed to be shoved into a graph.

It's interesting to look at major projects that have many commits to see when their active hours are. For instance, this is Linux's punch card: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/punch-card

Of course, interesting != useful

Wonder if that's adjusted for timezones. Would be nice to have a checkbox to either align by UTC or the commit's timezone (if that's even available).

It actually plots the local time, i.e. a commit at 3am PDT and another at 3am EST would contribute to the same circle on the plot. (I did a clone of the old GitHub graphs a while back.) So it isn't really useful for knowing when to contact faraway developers. On the other hand, it is fun to see how many committers are regular night owls.

I don't know--looking at the punch card gives me a good idea of when contributors to a project are active. This could be useful if I want to contact them about something over IRC, for example.

Also, it's just amusing to see people I know regularly comitting at 3am.

The new graphs are nice but this is a major step backwards. Page Views, Downloads are no longer there. This was very useful information.

GitHub Charts or GitHub Plots.

How do they have d3 charts in canvas?

Are you going to open source the graphs? I have a project they would be perfect for!

I just want a newsfeed that isn't useless =\. These graphs are nice, but there seems to be higher priority things to be fixing.

They can work on things in parallel, they have dozens of engineers at this point.

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