👓 dependency visualizer for GitHub, GitLab, Jira & Trello (a.k.a., “auto-roadmap”)
- Homepage: https://github.com/moul/depviz
- Demo: https://depviz-demo.moul.io/
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16 Ideas of Graph Visualization / Graph Databases Usages
I’m passionate about devtool and data visualization for a long time. I’m regularly giving trials to new tools in the mission to improve my productivity; I’m also creating some tools by myself (assh, depviz, wookie ADN solver, etc.)
There is a sub-topic where I’m more consuming external tools than producing ones: graph visualization; which contains itself some sub-topics: graph databases, graph optimizations, social graphs, real-time graph, graph UI, etc.
For about a week now, thinking (again) about ”how to represent a complex system”, and more precisely: ”how to make a collaborative tool that allows to defining, viewing and analyzing an unstructured, complex, evolutive, and living system.”
For now, I’m mostly reading articles and PoCing, from what I can see, there are a lot (maybe too much) of different existing solutions that handle every part I would need for the final solution.
Problems to address
- how to store the data
- how to programmatically inject and edit data
- how to manually inject and edit data
- how to generate code based on the model definitions
- how to visualize easily / navigate
- how to perform queries
- how to create real-time dashboards
- …
My plan is now to give a more in-depth look at my favorite options. In this intention, I listed 10 (actually 11) ideas of usages that are easier to implement than my target.
Usages for myself
- Visualize GitHub issues relationships – dependencies, author, people working on, people commenting out, project & organization hierarchy, milestone grouping, labels tagging, etc.
- Visualize Git code/PRs/Commits – similar to GitHub issues above, but based on code instead of issues: code, files, languages, author, PRs, commits, etc.
- Define and visualize IT architecture (intermediary milestone to my target) – host, container, ports, cluster, dependencies, Datacenter, process, developers, product, etc.
- Personal CRM – maintain a wiki about my relationships (people and company), visualize my social graph, etc.
- Blog content relationship – analyze content based on multiple criteria (keywords, tags, labels, label’s metadata, etc.) to analyze what I talk most, and generate better “related posts” suggestions.
- Cross-service social graph – create aggregators to visualize people, groups, the friends of friends, followers, followed, etc.
- Real-time monitoring – define services hierarchically and then write probs that to monitor the health
- Service/Application comparison based on features and other attributes
- My GitHub stats; repos, organizations, languages, libraries, metadata, CI used, followers, custom flags (more than 1000 commits, edited < 1 year ago, has a Dockerfile, contributors, etc.).
- Log parser to analyze user agent to endpoint (real-time dependency) – https://link.medium.com/rSLv1KGPnU
- P2P network efficiency analysis
Bonus: usages for friends
- PayFit: engine rules visualization
- Doctrine: analysis of legal case relationships
- Zenly: social graph, party recommendation
- Sounds.am: social graph, friend/playlist/artist/song recommendations
- Scaleway: visualize relationships between image / volume / volume layer / server entities
PS: about 1 year ago, I forced myself to list “10 something” every morning for a month. Writing this blog post motivated me to retry the experience and share some outputs in the form of small articles on this blog.
Note: this article is the output of a routine, the content of this list won't change over time. It's, however, possible that I create a whole new list on the same subject as a dedicated new post.13 ideas for depviz
The ideas
- AirTable Sync (weight, dependencies, blockers, etc.)
- Mode that aggregates every repository for a token (to avoid having to enter the names manually)
- To fetch less important entities (comments, events) when API quota is still high (>1000)
- Daemon mode (to replace the
while true) - Interactive Web Interface ❤️
- Interactive Web Interface with caching for offline access ❤️++
- Web Interface that can be used by an OAuth user
- Scoring system: a system that can score issues based on multiple criterias, sort them, and suggest the most prioritary ones
- Create a 1-click install AirTable template
- Support AirTable relationships (currently complicated due to an AirTable limitation).
- Automatically manage issues labels based on rules (
blocker,blocking,has-dependency,high-score, etc.) - Issue Roulette: Pick a random important issue; can be useful for real kanban flow.
- Provide visual statistics (charts, burndowns, etc.)
