Data

Data Visualization

Visualizing reqstat

Ronald Bradford
September 28, 2011

The reqstat tool was written to provide a vmstat like output of total web requests happening in real time. This really lightweight monitoring leverages memcached and has a trivial impact for immediate benefit.

Data Visualization

Visualizing crowd sourcing data

Ronald Bradford
September 27, 2011

At the closing keynote of the recent Strata Summit in New York, O’Reilly Media founder Tim O’Reilly showed a representation of crowd sourced data on Wikipedia of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , showing a before and after picture of the page.