New Viz: Timeline and Trackers

[groovecoder]

When a user wants to know which trackers can see how much of their browsing activity, arrange their visits along a horizontal timeline of circles, and arrange the 3rd-party trackers on a horizontal line above the timeline of visits.

google-anayltics.com            facebook.com
     /\------------------------------/\--------
    /  \ /         \              /             \
  O--O-----O-------O-----O-O----O------O----O------O
wired.com
     cnn.com
               etc.

[princiya]

This idea is so cool. Thanks @groovecoder

[princiya]

@groovecoder maybe we could do something like this? beeswarm plot

[groovecoder]

Ooo, that's a cool one. I could see that beeswarm plot representing the timeline of 1st-party page visits.

Would we visualize the 3rd-party trackers above it as another beeswarm plot with lines connecting them to the nodes in the lower plot?

Another cool way to visualize the 3rd-party trackers (or maybe the higher-level entities) that can see each node on the graph is to underlay a background color under each node the entity saw?

Like this visualzation of browser timeline ...

But replace "Based on Webkit" with "Seen by Google", "Based on Presto" with "Seen by Facebook", etc. ?

[princiya]

@groovecoder I can definitely see this horizontal timeline being able to convey some useful information. Thanks for creating this piece of issue! Once we are done stabilising the force layout, I would love to work on this piece :)