[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: hsparklines 0.1.0 - A sparklines implementation in Haskell

[Hitesh Jasani]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> hitesh.jasani:
>
>
> > Sparklines are small, word sized graphs that can be interspersed with
>  > text to provide context and enhance communication.  There are
>  > implementations in many languages and even some web services that will
>  > generate them on the fly.  I was looking for a Haskell solution and
>  > finding none, wrote my own.
>  >
>  > * http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hsparklines-0.1.0
>  > * http://www.jasani.org/2008/02/initial-release-of-hsparklines-010.html
>  >
>  > On a side note, while writing my blog entry I decided to generate a
>  > sparkline for the number of uploads to hackage.  If it's any
>  > indication, the Haskell community is growing by leaps and bounds.
>  >
>  > - Hitesh
>
>  Lovely work!
>
>  Is there a darcs repository available for the source? (Or would you
>  like to host it on hackage?)
>
>  Also, how did you generate the month-by-month data for hackage uploads?
>
>  -- Don
>

Sorry, there's no darcs repo.  Hosting it on hackage might be
interesting, but finding the time to learn how to do it is kind of
tough for me right now.  I guess it depends on whether others want to
contribute code to it.

I took the raw data off of the main page
(http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/log) and wrote some quick
and dirty Haskell to parse and process it.  Basically I counted an
upload as a unique event -- it didn't matter to me whether it was a
bug fix upload on an existing project or a new project.  The way I
looked at it, each upload represented people contributing to the
community.

- Hitesh