Deep in a windowless basement, we’ve outfitted a scientific SWAT team of robot chimpanzees, naked but for their tiny white lab coats and camelpaks filled with Red Bull. Welcome to the Memrise Labs, where we’re working on a number of experimental projects.
Many of these research efforts will take centuries to come to fruition, but we can offer you a sneak peek of one early experimental project, playing with ways of visualizing your learning.
Ed Cooke’s learning:
Greg Detre’s learning
A cursory and incomplete description:
- This is a sped-up animation of learning progress over the last 18 months or so. You can see the timestamp swooping around the red outer circle like a giant clock
- The big circles are languages – they get bigger as you learn more words. The small circles that shout out from them are individual words.
- The real version is interactive, so you can click on an individual word and see all the correct and incorrect answers as tiny black and white dots
There’s actually a lot more going on that’s a little hard to pick out in this video. Remember that this is just an early experimental version 
We’ll generate and send an animation like this of your learning progress to the first five Memrise users who email us at labs@memrise.com.
