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Comment · 10 years ago
Curious to know since you mentioned that it was fast for thousands of PDFs... any rough timing information on some of your queries for that kind of dataset?
Comment · 12 years ago
It took me a long time to realize that articles related to a topic can be seen by clicking on the year. This instruction is hidden below the screen fold. It'd also be nice to see actual numbers (along with the %) for each year during hover.

It'd also be useful to see a curated list of topics to select from, instead of just randomly picking some related topics on page load. Hopefully they harvest some interesting suggestions they receive through @nyt. There are some fun topic-suggestions in this thread already.

Overall, a nifty tool that I wish existed for all news sources in the world and worked across all languages.

Thanks to the creator(s)!

Comment · 13 years ago
We're looking into adding support for Exchange sometime soon.
Comment · 13 years ago
Currently, the server-side code is not public. But we might open-source parts of it in the future after adding some more features.
Comment · 13 years ago
We've had professors who have over 350,000 emails and years of email history use the system, and it has handled that pretty ok. So, don't worry about the network being over-populated. We do limit the number of nodes that the network shows initially. You can adjust that later if you wish to do so.

As for your time counter of 20 mins, that is a bit odd. Has the first version of the network not loaded for you? If you are on the /viz page, just refresh it. If the server has fetched at least the first batch of metadata, then the corresponding network will load immediately, and the rest of the fetching will happen in the background. Please note that we are also having heavy traffic at the moment; so the fetching process could be a bit slow.

Comment · 13 years ago
The 'Play' button is something we'd already implemented in a previous prototype, but it wasn't ready enough to be included in this release. It will show up in a future release though. :)

Also, by _slow_, were you referring to the actual rendering of the network when you adjusted the time-slider? Or the initial loading of the network itself? Because the former is actually pretty fast (if you are using Chrome), and the latter is something that we've tried to optimize as much as possible, but there are limitations.

Comment · 13 years ago
Just FYI, in case you weren't aware of this:

When you log out you have the option of deleting all of your metadata, and we also provide you with the link to revoke Immersion's access to Gmail.

Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Good point. We'll take care of this during our next server update. Thanks!
Comment · 13 years ago
That's the first we've heard of that error. When the user logs out, they are also presented with the link to revoke access via Gmail. Sorry you weren't able to get to that page. If you want to make sure that your data is deleted, we can do a manual delete of your metadata (if it exists on our server) for you. Just write to us at the address on the website.
Comment · 13 years ago
Hi, one of the team members of Immersion here. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Thanks for your feedback and comments!
Comment · 14 years ago
Interesting stuff. Even though it takes a while for the caption to be generated, the humor makes up for it (most of the time).

I'm assuming you guys have plans to integrate this into your other product (Peddl)?

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