wcmc.io

An introduction to the http://wcmc.io website.

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1. wcmc.io Use this great tool to find out who is reading your work!
2. shorten, share and track URLs about your documents, work and articles. How?
3. How does it work? When a user accesses the short-URL the application redirects him to the original resource, but in doing so it saves the user's URL information.
4. This information is then matched against third party public IP geolocation databases.
5. The URL is first searched against • Organization • City • Country If a match is found against an organization, a second search is made against a public geocoding API. If a match is found against an organization, a second search is made against a public geocoding API.
6. There are many public geolocation APIs
7. Use Case Understand which type of job vacancy advert attracts more interest.
8. This can also be visualized graphically
9. Use Case Track URL visits to your documents in cities or places ahead of planned meetings.
10. Map example
11. Use Case Have an overview of which organizations are more interested in specific URL resources.
13. This Web tool is not only a proof of concept about the usefulness of tracking specific URL's. It is also an experimentation on how to create simple and effective data visualizations.
14. How does one handle the interactive presentation of big quantities of point data? One possible solution: cluster the data depending on the zoom level...
15. The interactive map uses the Google Maps API, but the orange circles are created using d3.js
16. d3.js
17. d3 gives us flexibility... Not convinced about the effectiveness of the clustered circles approach? We can implement a heat-map instead!
18. Challenges and limitations It is not always possible to name and geocode every organization of potential interest.
19. Challenges and limitations We need a way to filter out search engine robots from real users... this result, for example, is suspicious...
20. A lot can still be done in researching and improving the tool's data and mapping visualizations and interactions. These achievements though can potentially be used across other applications and Websites.