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Using R to Visualize The Stories of Canadian Organizations That Contribute to Firefox Development
Presenter(s):
Mekki MacAulay
Ellen Auster
Time:
Fri, 10/30/2015 - 14:30
Topic Area:
Open Source
Tagline:
I use R scripting & graphing language to visually tell the story of 4 groups of Canadian organizations who contribute to the development of Firefox
Presentation Description:
In this talk, I present the final analysis and results of research on the participation of Canadian organizations in the development of the Firefox web browser from 2002-2012. Building on last year's theoretical framing and preliminary insights, I present a visual storytelling of 4 key groups of organizations in Canada who implement an open source strategy as part of their growth and development over time. Using the open source statistical analysis tool R, I walk through the steps for the computational analysis of the Bugzilla database in R script. I tell a visual story of 1) higher education organizations, 2) federal government, 3) large consulting firms, and 4) small businesses in Canada by generating appealing and intuitive diagrams in the R graphing language. I also introduce the audience to the GitHub repository that I have set up that contains all of my source code (Licensed as GPL3+) such that they may reproduce and build upon my work.