Drupal Earth, lift-off 🚀

The planet Drupal has now some data visualization based on Three.js an D3.js

This project started as a playground to become a bit more familiar with Python, aggregating data from the Drupal.org APIs to answer two specific questions: where are the Drupal peeps out there and what is the greatest distance between 2 Drupal contributors?

Then a few other questions quickly followed:

• how are they contributing?
• which languages are they talking?
• how many core contributors joined, by year?
• what are they working on?
• ...

It would also be nice to answer questions related to projects:

• what is the core version usage by year
• and get the same idea for contributed projects

While some of these data are available as is on Drupal.org, I wanted a new way to visualize them, so picked a few frameworks:

• React and Bulma for the UI
• Three.js + React Globe and D3.js for the 3D
• Nivo.rocks as an abstraction layer for D3.js charts and the React integration.

we can then answer the above questions on Drupalearth.org

Roadmap

This is still a playground so the roadmap is subject to change but the first things that I'd like to work on are:

• Weekly incremental update and monthly full update
• Extend data from core contributors to all Drupal users
• Add 3D map controls
• Add filters (filter projects by version, users by contribution type, ...)
• Add other aggregations and improve results
• Improve the UI
• SSR / PWA / Gatsby