962506 - Create tool to visualize connections between a teaching kit, activities, and makes

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Webmaker Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[William Duyck [:fuzzyfox]]

Idea: Create maps/hierarchies of kits through to makes. These maps could be used for navigation, identifying (visually) popular kits, connections between topics, existing learning pathways, etc...

Flow:
* Enter a url for a kit
  * it finds all the links in the kit for *.makes.org/*
    * this is repeated for all makes found
    * stops when there are no links w/i *.makes.org domain
  * results are then output as json to be passed into a connected node (tree) style visualization, w/ data from makeapi overlaid on each node (make)
  * ideally kits, activities, and makes are all visually differentiable
  * starting kit sits as root of the tree.

Based on the idea that a natural structure from kits through activities to makes exists.

Comment 1

[William Duyck [:fuzzyfox]]

First rough prototype:

https://github.com/fuzzyfox/teaching-kit-experiments/tree/master/kitmapper


Result of first trace w/ some manual help to determine kits from activities, etc... 
http://cl.ly/image/3g2X152d2r3y

Comment 2

[William Duyck [:fuzzyfox]]

Closing bug as its now a little old, and out-dated, feel free to reopen if it is of some use still in the future.