i listened the Apollo and Relay team duke it out on GraphQL radio yesterday and it was pretty cool. it seems they will reach an uneasy convergence.

meanwhile the apollo team’s tooling is solid. i am messing around on their playground today: https://launchpad.graphql.com/3xp1vx3lv

i forked graphiql to do some of my own tweaks! also PR’ed to fix a doc: https://github.com/graphql/graphiql/issues/619

two awesome sidebar components:

GOT data thread:

Hey guys,

I’m doing a project that requires good GOT data and so I naturally turned to what everyone knows, the API of Ice and Fire. Unfortunately I soon found concerning holes in the data, for example most (but not all!) of the Mother, Father, and Spouse fields are blank even for the main characters. As a non-book reader I was also worried about double entry - apparently Daenerys is -not- the first of her name(first, second)? and other careless mistakes.

So while I appreciate AoIAF I am looking to supplement my data with more datasets. I don’t have the time/skill to write scrapers for the wikia or the wiki. Anyway I decided to share the resources I found in case future people need this too, and also please chime in with anything I may have missed. I went five pages deep into two google searches and picked out useful looking stuff. Here goes.

3 Looker blogs were a good source for finding some of the above (weren’t on google) and wanted to give credit.

Visualizations w/o raw data (may need extra work to chase down the raw data, im not interested in the pretty charts if I cant reproduce them/use them myself)