Visualizing Open Source Contributions

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Slashdot reports that a student at UC Davis has created "some stunning visualizations of open source software contributions, including Eclipse, Python, Apache httpd and Postgres". This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits in a software project. A number of videos showing the results of the tool are available.