[Ldsoss] FamilySearch Labs - Smart Pedigree Viewer

[m0smith]

I did get it to work.  It is very important to pick the correct RIN
number.    With a large GEDCOM, (4000+ people) the performance was a bit
slow and it couldn't zoom out far enough to see the whole chart.

I really love the concept.  Some of the things I like:

* When you click on a box, it lights up yellow with all the descendants.
With is quite interesting and useful because the smart tool does not follow
expected structure of a pedigree chart from one generation to the next.

* Its fun from a visual prospective.  Its cool to see how far back your
lines go and how to get there.

As I mentioned before, I have been working on a proect to give a visual
overview to a entire family history database.  Some of the things that I
would like to be able to do with a visual tool like this one is:

*  Find the "holes" in my tree.  Where does each line stop
* Visually find "duplicates".  The idea is to present the data in such a way
that any duplicates or possible duplicates show up.
* Navigation.  Finding your way quickly around the entire database.  Your
tool goes a long way toward making this happen
* Visual data analysis - Plot various types of 2D and 3D graphs using
various attributes from the data.  For example, birthplace plotted against
surname against birthdate.  It could be used to show anomolies which end up
being interesting in family history research.


On 10/6/06, m0smith <m0smith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> I have been working on a similar project (topoged) so I was excited to see
> your smart viewer.  Unfortunely, it did not work on my 6 MB GEDCOM.  Looks
> exciting though.
>
> On 10/6/06, Dan Lawyer <lawyerdc at ldschurch.org> wrote:
>
> >  All,
> >
> > A week or so ago I posted an image of my pedigree in a smart pedigree
> > viewer we've been working on. Many people expressed an interest in playing
> > with the viewer using their own data and I thought this group would be
> > interested. We've just made a new website available (FamilySearch Labs) to
> > showcase interesting new technology we're working on. The first project on
> > the site is our smart pedigree viewer. It allows you to upload your own
> > GEDCOM and view it or view one of our sample files. Go check it out at
> > www.familysearchlabs.org and be sure to use the feedback link on the
> > site to tell us what you think.
> >
> > -Dan
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