[MlMt] Thread Arcs styling options

[Rob McBroom]

On 5 Feb 2014, at 15:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> I’m just thinking out loud. I wouldn’t even be able to implement 
> thread arcs in HTML myself. If anyone wants to play with this then I 
> think I can create a bundle command which demonstrates how one can 
> generate input similar to the above (or something simpler), generate 
> some simple HTML, and finally, open the result in a browser.
>
> Slightly off topic: The above is something I had not considered for 
> thread arcs, but I often think it would be really cool if scripts were 
> created which visualized various statistics about groups of messages 
> using, e.g., gnuplot or maybe a graphing tool for HTML. For example, a 
> graph showing the number of emails replied per day, or a pie chart of 
> top-posters on the MailMate mailing list :-) I’ll assist anyone with 
> an interest in such visualizations (or even just simple tables).

For both generating fancy custom thread-arcs and the off-topic stuff, I 
think [D3.js](http://d3js.org/) would do the trick. It can consume JSON 
and CSV. Check out some of the demos.

-- 
Rob McBroom
http://www.skurfer.com/
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