Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events
A developer has created a zoomable timeline interface using Kotlin Multiplatform to visualize 4 million events from Wikipedia and Wikidata. The project utilizes PageRank for event scoring and is supported by a Postgres backend.
Why it matters
This project demonstrates practical applications of cross-platform development frameworks and large-scale data visualization.
I'm building a journal app in Kotlin Multiplatform and for this purpose I have created a zoomable timeline interface. This is a side-project where I reuse the timeline interface to display 4 million events imported from Wikipedia / Wikidata, scored using PageRank. There is more information on the about page. If you're interested in the stack: I use Kotlin Multiplatform extensively, with Compose Multiplatform for the UI, communicates with the backend using Kotlinx-RPC and behind the hood a simple Postgres database on a Hetzner machine.
The content is a technical showcase of a personal software project.
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