[Ldsoss] FamilySearch Labs - Smart Pedigree Viewer

[Dan Lawyer]

We haven't begun to look at performance yet. We have some ideas on how to
improve that. We have some similar ideas to what you've expressed below. Keep
watching and keep sending feedback.

>>> m0smith <m0smith at gmail.com> 10/7/2006 10:56:10 AM >>>
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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