Cool animated display of wine appdb stats

[Dan Kegel]

Has anyone else noticed
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_Of_WineAppDB.gif
which is shown on the right side of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) ?
It's kind of cool.  Hats off to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Estemi
who put it together.
- Dan

[Joel Holdsworth]

> Has anyone else noticed
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_Of_WineAppDB.gif
> which is shown on the right side of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) ?
> It's kind of cool.  Hats off to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Estemi
> who put it together.
> - Dan

Yes that is cool - though I think a plotted graph would be easier to
read. On the other hand the animation does help get the feeling of
growth across.

[Reece Dunn]

2009/4/9 Joel Holdsworth :
> > Has anyone else noticed
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_Of_WineAppDB.gif
> > which is shown on the right side of
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) ?
> > It's kind of cool.  Hats off to
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Estemi
> > who put it together.
> > - Dan
>
> Yes that is cool - though I think a plotted graph would be easier to
> read. On the other hand the animation does help get the feeling of
> growth across.

The animated version is very cool.

Would it be possible to generate the data "live" from appdb (or create
an hourly/daily snapshot) and feed it into something like Google
analytics to generate pretty pictures. Kind of like what github does
(see http://github.com/github/wine/graphs/punch_card for a display of
the commits per day and hour on wine).

- Reece

[Scott Ritchie]

Joel Holdsworth wrote:
> > Has anyone else noticed
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_Of_WineAppDB.gif
> > which is shown on the right side of
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) ?
> > It's kind of cool.  Hats off to
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Estemi
> > who put it together.
> > - Dan
>
> Yes that is cool - though I think a plotted graph would be easier to
> read. On the other hand the animation does help get the feeling of
> growth across.

It does, though I do worry how much it's graphing rating inflation more 
than actual progress.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

[Reece Dunn]

2009/4/9 Scott Ritchie :
> Joel Holdsworth wrote:
> > > Has anyone else noticed
> > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_Of_WineAppDB.gif
> > > which is shown on the right side of
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) ?
> > > It's kind of cool.  Hats off to
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Estemi
> > > who put it together.
> > > - Dan
> >
> > Yes that is cool - though I think a plotted graph would be easier to
> > read. On the other hand the animation does help get the feeling of
> > growth across.
>
> It does, though I do worry how much it's graphing rating inflation more than
> actual progress.

Results can be skewed depending on the platform it is running on.
Games will be dependent on the graphics cards and drivers being used
(a bad driver can easily result in a garbage rating). Compiz can also
colour the results.

An app that I use is broken with pulseaudio+Ubuntu (over and above the
audio glitches/scratches).

This information is hard to tell in the AppDB results (unless the
person mentions these -- which is hard to scan when generating the
data).

Then there are the things that the person does during the tests. For
example, using a map editor or full screen mode.

I don't know how AppDB can be improved to handle these cases and the
mis-classifications (e.g. DLL overrides and other tweaks/workarounds).

- Reece