DocuViz

Visualize the evolution of authors' contributions in a Google Doc

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DocuViz: Visualize Google Docs Collaboration

DocuViz is a Chrome extension developed by Hana Research Lab at UC Irvine, designed to provide a comprehensive visualization of the revision history in Google Docs. It color codes each author's edits and displays the timeline of edits from left to right, giving an in-depth insight into the collaboration pattern and document evolution. The extension enhances the existing Revision-History feature in Google Docs by presenting a complete historyflow view, instead of just one revision at a time.

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By: Dakuo Wang

Users: 3,000+

Rating: 4.87

(15)

Version: 3.9 (Last updated: 2024-12-19)

Creation date: 2020-07-02

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

webRequest
activeTab
scripting
webNavigation

Host permissions:

*://docs.google.com/*

Size: 211.97K

Email: da*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 17,706 ▲ 277

Other rankings

#12320 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 2 #60 in google docs keyword 99 ▲ 3 #131 in document keyword 95 ▼ 10 #236 in column keyword 29 ▼ 1

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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DocuViz is developed by Hana Research Lab at the University of California, Irvine. It generates the history revision Visualization in a co-authored document on Google Docs. It color codes who edited what, when and where. Time goes from left to right. The darker color columns represent revision content; and the lighter color columns represent the links between columns. Extending the existing Revision-History feature within Google Docs, DocuViz shows the entire history in a historyflow view rather than the one-revision-at-a-time view. It can reveal the evolution of the document and the collaboration patters of co-authors.

Dakuo Wang and Jingwen Zhang developed the first version, and Kenny Pham is the primary developer for this plugin. HistoryFlow visualization is invented by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg. We also thank James Somers for his advice on getting the accurate data from Google Docs without using the Google API.

You can contact Dakuo Wang ([email protected]) for further questions.

User reviews

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Pros

Works perfectly on smaller documents
Helpful for accountability and workflow insights
Easy to use and well thought out for Google Chrome

Cons

Struggles with large documents, often getting stuck in loading mode
Does not work on Microsoft Edge
The DocuViz button often displays 'loading' without results

Most mentioned

Issues with loading on large documents
Positive feedback regarding its functionality on smaller documents
User interest in expanding functionality to bulk operations and slides

User reviews

Benjamin Breslov, 2024-10-13

Really cool extension, works perfectly

Rune, 2024-02-14

The idea is amazing, I tried it on a doc with fewer revisions (1700) and it worked, but on a bigger one (81969 changes) it seems to be stuck on loading mode. Does it actually word on big docs? Any alternative should that be the case? Thank you very much and congrats on this API!