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Blocked loading mixed active content "http://api.choir.io/stream/f9c750f2bedb0c0f" @ https://choir.io/static/media/lib.967f1395.js:8671Very interesting. Watching log files scroll by I have noticed that once you have stared at them for too long you start recognizing the patterns. There's not enough time you read everything that scrolls by you quite often you just know that now something is out of place. Maybe these soundscapes could provide something similar in a non obtrusive way. Just by listening your brain would be wired to expect certain sounds…
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Book on the subject: Gregory Kramer - "Auditory Display - Sonification, Audification and Auditory Interfaces"
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Visiting the demo via http instead of https works. (Though ofcourse they should fix that)
I had the pleasure of meeting the Mailbox app crew at Dropbox's offices a few months ago. They had a really cool light show on what looked like a table tennis net strung up with networked LEDs and pasted to the wall. When a user signed up, it would create a blue pattern across the net. When a message was sent, the screen flashed red. You can imagine the screen was a dancing symphony of visually encoded events -- it was and really remarkable and quite beautiful to watch. Chaotic at first, but once you memorized the patterns you could glance at the screen and immediately feel the pulse of the application. After a few hours I think you'd almost be in touch with the application where you could recognize errors without even having to check your logs / analytics / etc...
So @cortesi, definitely build in a hook for the Mixpanel API. It'd be great to get a sound everytime a user signs up, signs in, or triggers certain events.
I can imagine all the SF startup folks walking around the mission with boomboxes on their shoulders networked to pick up their audio feed from Choir.io, broadcasting their own encoded analytics melody to the world. Or PMs with headphones on at their spin class, keeping up with their engineers' progress on the new sprint. Ok yes, I'm mocking the movement now, but it's still pretty cool, congrats =)
Instead of simply generating a fixed sound for each event, have you considered synthesizing a continuous multi-track score? Like a baseline piece of orchestra music being modulated by the events. Or something like Brian Eno's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music
Also, perhaps consider streams of data other than discrete events: perhaps continuous metrics like CPU utilization, or stack traces from profiles, or percentiles of latency, or ...
I was just thinking about this today. How it would be nice to be able to listen to the pulse of our analytics. I had the pleasure of meeting the Mailbox app crew at Dropbox's offices a few months ago. They had a really cool light show on what looked like a table tennis net strung up with networked LEDs and pasted to the wall. When a user signed up, it would create a blue pattern across the net. When a message was sen…
We're collecting integration ideas over here:
http://choir.uservoice.com/forums/217059-general/category/70...
If there's anything else on your wishlist, just chuck it in tnere.