# We're not supposed to show downloads for these countries (607127#c10):
# Cuba, Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Myanmar, Sudan. Go figure.
REDACTED = ('CU', 'IR', 'SY', 'KP', 'MM', 'SD')
Didn't Mozilla get a special exemption from the US government to allow them to export their crypto ("arms") to those countries? I don't see why they would try to hide the fact that they are allowing downloads from those countries.
Hrm. Happy to answer any questions. I work for SQLstream. (I'm not speaking officially for SQLstream at this moment, of course.) The upshot is that it's a realtime query and manipulation engine that works with standard SQL. There's a relatively simple SQL app running under SQLstream that gets the live data, does GEO IP lookup and other manipulation, and then vends it to a the webserver in 60-second chunks.
I don't know the intimate details of Mozilla's server configuration, but the way I understand it, these geographically disperse load balancers don't know specifics about the requester locations -- just IPs.
It's a beautiful visualization. While browsing through the source code, I noticed that there are a few numeric keyboard shortcuts. "9" is especially handy!
It will be interesting to write a second kind of web app that show analytics break down in different manner: continent, timezone, and even cooler will be to see the correlation with the number of tweets about FF4 split on the same geolocation / timezeone when the data is available.
I wonder too if the JSON data available will provide break down by OS platform.
