# benbjohnson/thesecretlivesofdata

Understanding what your bits do when you're not looking.

Repository: https://github.com/benbjohnson/thesecretlivesofdata
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/thesecretlivesofdata
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-03-08T16:33:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4780, "days_push": 1274, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3619, forks 338 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:11.844873+00:00)

## What it is
An interactive web-based educational project that visualizes how distributed systems work, best known for its 'Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus' visualization. It aims to teach how data flows through systems like databases and servers through step-by-step animations.

## Use cases
- learn how the Raft consensus algorithm works
- visualize leader election and log replication in distributed systems
- teach distributed systems concepts to students
- understand what happens to data in distributed databases
- explore interactive explanations of system internals

## When to choose
- you want an intuitive, visual introduction to Raft consensus
- you're teaching or learning distributed systems fundamentals
- you prefer interactive animations over papers or lectures

## When to avoid
- you need a production Raft implementation or library
- you need comprehensive coverage of many distributed systems topics (only Raft is complete)
- you need up-to-date content, as development is largely inactive

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: data-visualization, simulation
- domain: microservices, education, data-visualization
- platform: browser
- tags: interactive-visualization, raft-consensus, educational, distributed-systems, education, algorithms, web, javascript

## Member repositories
- benbjohnson/thesecretlivesofdata (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:11.844873+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:31:59.129368+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/benbjohnson/thesecretlivesofdata (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:11.844873+00:00, sha 8277d8b82815)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.