Visualize Source Code
Back in Apply Geographical Offender Profiling to Code, we used Code City to visualize the spatial movement of developers. The city metaphor is a powerful visualization idea.
Code City was my starting point in 2010 as I formalized the concept of behavioral code analysis. Visualizations were key since they enabled a shift in perspective. Most code looks innocent enough in the constrained view of a code editor. Not so in Code City: you’ll notice patterns you didn’t spot before. This works because visual images tap into the most powerful pattern detector in the known universe—the human brain.
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