On a tangential note, this latest demo looks very very close to the sort of thing Bret Victor has been talking about over the last year or two (http://worrydream.com). If you haven't checked it out I think it might be interesting to you.
On a tangential note, this latest demo looks very very close to the sort of thing Bret Victor has been talking about over the last year or two (http://worrydream.com). If you haven't checked it out I think it might be interesting to you.
We build networks of lots of different kinds against our own codebases and databases. And personally I've done a bunch of experiments around visualizing code in the past.
Unfortunately, I don't think I, or anyone else at the company, has convincingly cracked the problem yet. Generally, the visualizations look pretty, but they aren't "tactile" or practical enough to be useful.
But you've convinced me that it would be worth digging up some of my old experiments and writing a blog post around them, so that at least any progress I've made can be carried further by other people.
I would certainly be interested in seeing that. I have a lot of that sort of work looming in my immediate future.