A method for visually summarizing an individual’s breadth of skills and knowledge.
Current Features
- Driven by simple JSON data structure
- Generate as standalone SVG
- Display skills as bubbles
- Credentialed skill indicator (white outline around bubble)
- Color skill bubbles based on mapping to the Melvile Decimal System
- Size of skill bubbles is based on a person’s level of expertise
- Relative skill bubble speed and opacity is based on currency (how recently the skill was employed or studied)
Planned Features
- Pause animation on hover
- Animate bubble groups based on meaning rather than random
- Show skill on hover
- “Open” to view skill list details
- UI for maintaining one’s own heraldry
- Web component
- Detailed info for credentialed skills
- Merge closely-related bubbles into more amorphous shapes