It looks like they took at least a little inspiration from Panic's Status Board: http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/
Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup
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#12Does anyone know what is powering the analytics? Is it gecko board? Or a custom solution?
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#13Does anyone know what is powering the analytics? Is it gecko board? Or a custom solution?
He mentions Geckoboard
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#14Why 3x580 instead of a single eyefinity Radeon? Would seem like a obvious choice for such project.
Since you don't need 3D acceleration, maybe a single Matrox card would be more appropriate. e.g. One of these http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_... can drive 8 monitors. Edit: whoops, didn't notice it was $$$$.
While they may not directly need the 3D acceleration it may be being used to their advantage still, that was one of my questions but they said that lower end cards were resulting in stuttering. It looked to me like it was all stuff in web browsers so they might be using newer chrome/ie and the like with hardware accelerated rendering.
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#15Why 3x580 instead of a single eyefinity Radeon? Would seem like a obvious choice for such project.
Since you don't need 3D acceleration, maybe a single Matrox card would be more appropriate. e.g. One of these http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_... can drive 8 monitors. Edit: whoops, didn't notice it was $$$$.
I don't know - when a $290 Radeon can drive 6 monitors per card (with enough acceleration to draw basic 3D on each), is there really a place for Matrox any more? The card you linked is $1800.
I know either is a small fraction of the cost of the overall device, but you'd still want some kind of benefit for the price increase.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121...
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#16Really big???
This is really big:
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#17Really big??? This is really big: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/viz_systems.html
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#18It looks like they took at least a little inspiration from Panic's Status Board: http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/
While we borrowed incredibly heavily from Panic's design at Fog Creek, I think StackExchange's is an example of parallel evolution more than anything else at this point. Panic built an absolutely beautiful board, but the idea of a board didn't originate with them, nor is there much overlap between StackExchange's and theirs.
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#19Does anyone know what is powering the analytics? Is it gecko board? Or a custom solution?
Paul from Geckoboard here. Geckoboard doesn't collect or store the stats, it collates and displays them.
These guys are hooking in to their analytics package. The web analytics services we connect to include Google Analytics, Chartbeat, GoSquared & Mixpanel natively, but you can use our push & pull APIs to connect custom widgets.
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#20I was thinking they were using Leftronic for their dashboard, but looks like they say it's Geckoboard. Interesting how there's a convergence around how dashboards look - I imagine it's like michaelbuckbee said, that Panic's design is a huge inspiration for others.