Fork of D3 Git History Streamgraph
This streamgraph visualizes the commit history of every D3.js repository, with each layer representing a package and its thickness showing smoothed weekly commit counts. The layer order follows each repository’s first commit, revealing the shift from the monolithic `d3` repo to the 4.0 package explosion in late 2014. Using D3’s `stackOffsetWiggle` and `stackOrderAppearance`, it shapes layers into a flowing stream, colored via `d3.hcl` with random luminance. Rendered as SVG, it loads commit data from a JSON URL and applies `array-blur` for smoothing, with labels positioned by `d3-area-label`.
AI-generated descriptionThis is an experiment in visualizing D3 Git History. Each layer is a D3 repository. The thickness of each layer is the number of commits per week with smoothing applied. This visualization uses a modified Streamgraph technique where the layer order is determined by the time of the first commit. So, as you read the labels from bottom to top, that corresponds to the history of when each repository was introduced.
On the whole, one can see that development occurred in the original monolithic d3 repository from late 2010 to mid 2014. In late 2014 we see an explosion of packages, corresponding to the 4.0 release of D3. Since that great explosion, we see a big push on d3-delaunay in 2018, and ongoing development/maintenance work pretty evenly distributed across the various D3 packages.
This piece was created as a submission for D3 Parade 2021.
It was the starting point for the open source project: stamen/git-history-streamgraph.