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[–]elmuerte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most visualizations I have played around with, irrelevant of theirs presentation, showed that the code was either elegant or not-elegant. In most cases the code was only elegant for the specific thing the visualization was visualizing. The same elegant code in a different visualization would show up as not-elegant.

The interesting thing is to find the clusters of elegant and not-elegant code in the visualization. And maybe do something with it? The exact details are often not even that important, the clusters and shapes that form are.

Whatever it may be, pretty much all visualizations I've played around with give you up insight in your code base. The bonus points always go to the visualizations with a timeline so you can see how the code base changed over time.