Posts in Visualization

Visualizing Open Source Project Commit Histories

Recently, I came across this excellent interview with the graphic designer Peter Saville describing the origin of Joy Division's famous cover for Unknown Pleasures. I decided to recreate the visual form of the image using open source project commit histories, including VSCode, React, TensorFlow, and Git itself.

The 2013 Felton Volume Chart

This final post in my series on how I created the visualizations in my Visual Studio Code 2020 Year in Review covers how I recreated the "volume chart" from Nicholas Felton's 2013 Annual Report.

By Jeff Palmer in Case Studies

March 30, 2021 • 11 Minute Read