New release: better clustering, tweet display, keyboard shortcuts

[Jonathan Stray]

Major new release this morning!

Better clustering. We've switched to a new clustering algorithm that produces much more intelligible output. If you didn't quite love the way Overview was organizing your documents before, please try again now.

Sharable document sets. A little checkbox next to each of your document set allows you to share it with all users (specific user sharing coming soon.) 

You can import a shared document set through the new import dialog. Note that currently this clones the document set, meaning that any changes to the clone will not be reflected in the original, and vice-versa. 

 The importer of the shared document set must still have permission, through DocumentCloud, to access any private documents.

 

Integrated Tweet display. It's possible (and fun!) to use Overview to organize and explore a large volume of tweets. To do this, you will need to capture your tweets to a CSV file and upload it to Overview, as explained here. The tweet text should be in the text column, and to use the integrated viewer the URL of the original tweet should be in the URL column, e.g.  https://twitter.com/jonathanstray/status/302145598306516992. Then you will see Tweets nicely displayed in native format right within Overview, including attached links, conversations, etc.:

 

Keyboard shortcuts: For super-fast navigation through your documents, use this:

  Arrow keys - navigate through the nodes of the tree

  j - next document in list

  k - previous document in list

 

MOAR DOCUMENTS! The limit is now 20k. If you try to import a document set with more than this, Overview will import only the first 20,000/

Thanks all, and happy document mining!

  - Jonathan

[Tom Morris]

Congrats on the new release! 

Where is the source repository now?  A previous announcements change log link implied it should be at https://github.com/overview/overview-server but there's no such repository.

Tom

[jo...@overviewproject.org]

Hi Tom,

The repository will be made public as soon as we work out the licensing details.

We'll keep you posted,

_jonas

[Jonathan Stray]

More specifically, we just have to append the right licenses to the all the various source files, etc. We are hoping to have this done by next week.

Anything in particular you are looking to hack on?

  - Jonathan

[Mark Silverberg]

I'm also looking forward to checking out the new code base to hack on and run locally.