Ogawa calls Code_swarm an example of "organic information visualization," which turns data into a living, breathing system. He chose music videos as a model for the final product because they are short, dynamic and interesting, in contrast with most academic videos, he said. ed.z.: Well, shoot, just take this thing for a spin. Extrapolate. You could use this for some really spiffy predictive analysis, by working backwards from several different successful and not so successful projects, and then design the perfect project (or fix currently running projects faster/better/cheaper), correlate devs/techniques/styles and run odds on probable wildcards to give you time scales that could be run by the VC guys (if you needed them). Perhaps.

Yes, you could do it all with text the normal way industry chart wizard analysts work (that is different from the quants massive manipulation fast trade type software I think), but this way you could run a buhzillion wargaming simulations, limited just by your hardware and how many different variables you want to use per run, balancing the human factor with the regular outside influences, whether it is a tangible or intangible product, a delivered service, political/social outcomes, your market vector (or even determining that once you have some amazing idea and get stuck at that point) and so on, man, a huge list of things there. It's sort of cool, a fast social modeling variant that you could throw geometry at. Heh, I guess the music could be for funzies at that point... And you can obviously take it beyond code development, use it anyplace really, as long as you get good data in, as the old saw cuts.