Lunchbreak

I have an old habit of creating ‘screensavers’ from semi-random generated data. An example from the past (2013, long lost era in IT dimensions) was this peacefully floating Force-Directed Graph based on XML data. Back then I worked with a certain database that consumed XML like cornflakes, munch munch. However, the sources disappeared in the realms of time, or the space vortex (maybe I need to clean up my archives some day…). Hence I present today another one, because inspired by an interesting question at work I spent a lunchbreak putting a new edition together.

Now behold, and watch for the latest reincarnation of this concept at https://github.com/taatuut/lunchbreak

It features a Sankey diagram (thanks d3.js) backed by MongoDB Atlas (duh) that gets its contents from a Python script spitting out as much data as you want to mongoimport, loading it into a MongoDB Atlas database of choice in da cloud (works with the Atlas M0 free tier TM). And it uses nifty elements from Atlas App Services like HTTPS Endpoints, Functions and Hosting. Really advanced stuff! The background color is MongoDB green of course. Runs nicely on the mobile too, enjoy :slightly_smiling_face:

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