Any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message.
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guidelines for creating interactive visualisations for the exploration of datasets?
Does anyone know any guidelines in creating interactive visualisations for the exploration of datasets?
I can find lots of material on why particular instances are good or bad, but the actual design ...
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How to show related data together in one diagram?
Let us have the following three sets of information
Now I want to combine all of this data and show it all together. Telling it like a story. Giving inter-relations. Showing similarities ...
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How do you handle long charts that span multiple pages?
I need to print several bar charts to PDF for some reporting requirements. One the of the issues I am certain to encounter is how to handle the display of very long charts that span multiple pages in ...
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What is the best way to visualize an org chart when people have multiple responsibilities?
I have asked the following question on stackoverflow around modeling an org chart. This focused on the DB modeling details, etc but I want to ask a related question here focusing purely on the user ...
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I want to group countries on a map into different mutually exclusive groups. What is the best interactive way to achieve this?
I am in a process to create an interactive map which displays sales of a product by region. Based on the data shown there is a possibility that I may find similarities between a few regions and want ...
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When is a table the proper way to present data?
UPDATE: added mockups
We are in the process of designing a web application interface for administering an online store. In such an interface there are pages for managing products, orders, customers, ...
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How to display ranges in a map legend
We need to display a map legend that shows ranges of pipe diameters. Currently we have something like this:
The problem with this is that the edge cases are ambiguous. Does 50mm fall in the first ...
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Individual welcome page vs. site content
I am thinking of the structure of one my new apps for the web.
What do you think would be the most userfriendly approach to present the sites first page?
Have a welcome page that shows just a ...
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What are good UI Visualizations to show in a grid for ranking activity?
I have a grid with a list of runners (one person in each row) on a webpage. I want to show some visualization in a column to represent how much they have ridden in the last year. Right now I am just ...
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Is there any value in using “irrelevant” icons
I'm currently wireframing/"UXing" and doing the front-end dev work on the rebuild of a reasonably big intranet app with lots of data in various sections. To make things easier for the users to pick ...
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Graph for toggling data set
We are building a network monitoring tool and we need to show a graph which shows the Active/Inactive state of the machines.
Like for example, during a period of 24 hours, during which periods the ...
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UXD Methodology - Best practices for identifying a Global Navigation Toolbar implementation
I am part of a large webapp project, but a small UX team (we just went from 1 to 2, a few weeks ago). We were brought in terribly late in the process, to the point where there was literally no chance ...
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How can I choose a colour palette for multiple data visualization types?
I'm currently implementing the Google Visualization API into an existing platform, one requirement of which is the ability to choose custom colours for chart elements (such as pie slices and columns).
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Data visualization - what should be the baseline, 'you' or the 'comparator' series?
This question is about data visualization, but ultimately it deals with usability and user expectations, so I felt it was appropriate to post it here.
Imagine you are doing a comparison over time ...
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Can this chart axis labelling be improved? (Showing zero in histogram)
I have a chart like the one pictured, with the following "tick intervals":
0, 1-10000,10001-20000,20000-30000 and 30000+
What is a consistent way of labeling the x-axis? I am not pleased with how ...
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How to display a connected boxes with inputs and outputs in a smartphone?
Imagine the concept of a black box, that can have inputs and outputs.
A box can connect with other boxes.
We have something like this:
Now imagine a smartphone. "Ok, this guy is crazy." You ...
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Visualization ideas for progress on a project with thousands of steps?
I'm working on an interface to do transcription of a collection of handwritten index cards... a lot of index cards, something like tens of thousands of them.
I'm building a site where several people ...
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How can I communicate linear progress through a series of states with color?
I'm trying to help visualize a portfolio of projects.
They start off in the first state with some basic details, then they're reviewed, fully defined, and finally, work is begun.
Right now, the ...
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Feedback wanted - pagination design on data-heavy site
My site is a sports pick'em social game. Given the nature of sports and pick'em, it tends to be a data-intensive site. I'm very wary of any new features or designs that might cause the user to be ...
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Allow users to choose visualisation type?
Wondering if anyone has any recommendations or articles on this.
Basically we conducted research into the best methods of visualisation are for particular datasets. Basic example, data plotted over ...
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Improve display of date range inside a table
I have been taking a look at this post, but it is not exactly what I am looking for, plus I have hour and minutes and is inside a table.
My current table is this one (bigger image):
The problem I ...
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How should locations without exact addresses be represented on a city map alongside locations with exact addresses?
I have a dataset of items I'm interested in mapping over a greater metropolitan area, with multi-item cluster markers at a zoomed-out scale and single-item point markers when zoomed in. Users would be ...
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A portfolio of … text? (Information Visualization Challenge)
I'm trying to build a portfolio template for a writer's portfolio, and I'm having trouble finding an effective way to present so much text. Most portfolio sites have the benefit of (hopefully) ...
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How would you design a two stage bar chart drill down?
A common design pattern I've used is using a horizontal bar chart to visualize numeric data about a series, and a click through drilldown that discloses a pane with more detailed information about the ...
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How to visualize similarity of one file to another?
Problem
My file-system is a mess, over the years I've been accumulating way too many downloads I didn't care to uncompress and organize, code that was subject to endless copy+pastes and improvements ...
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Usability of Web Analytics Applications
Are there any usability resources out there that specifically deal with the design of an analytics web application? I've been tasked to design a web app with a strong analytics component and I've ...
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Comparing data with two sets of dates
Has anyone seen an interface that allows users to select two different sets of dates to compare data? And then the corresponding data in tables and/or graph form?
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How to define the status between now and a last checkpoint?
I have sets of probing data from an internal monitoring tool which represent the availability of different services (databases, webservices and so on).
Now my task is to visualize this data and I ...
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How should I visualize the frequency of events?
I have a series of events during the day.
If I group them in hours I might have something like this:
20 events from 10:00:00 to 10:59:59
30 events from 11:00:00 to 11:59:59
10 events from 12:00:00 ...
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Representing large numbers
I'm developing a charting application. There could be a situation where I would have to display large numbers on the chart. The problem is that they number labels have to fit inside the chart columns, ...
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Examples of Master/Detail UI for “Social-Style” data [closed]
I'm looking for examples of interfaces that allow users to explore complex, interconnected systems on a variety of levels, from high-level patterns to low-level details.
In the mapping world, this ...
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What type of graph do users prefer?
I am in total confusion as to what type of graph to provide the user with for my dashboard. My dashboard deals with user statistic like No. of visits, total points they have earned, etc.
But I don't ...
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Suggestions to display large amounts of flight prices?
I have an app that I wrote as a hobby project (when I was learning F#) that collects price data for flights for a given route. I now want to open this up on the web but the major stumbling block I ...
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Your experiences with call centre wallboard UX [closed]
As I'll be getting started on a project involving displaying dashboard data on call centre wallboards I thought I'd solicit your experience as part of my preparatory research.
If you've been involved ...
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How to organize multiple information popup areas over a table?
How might you best organize multiple popups over a table when both the table content and the popup content are equally important.
Scenario:
Tabulated data, for which the user may be interested in ...
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What's the best way to graph results of a matrix ranking question?
I'm reworking an existing module which graphs results from a live survey with several different question types. I discovered that the results of matrix-type ranking questions are graphed as a single ...
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Appropriate color for updated row data
I have a digital signage app that displays flight information. In shows data in rows like you see at pretty much every airport in the world. Text is white on black, row background alternates ...
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Spacing of items inside a panel (WrapPanel)
Many sites and applications using WrapPanel to display your items.
Items are queued from left to right and when there is no more space tend to skip to the next line.
For Example:
What is the ...
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Best way to display a date range
I'm looking for the best way to display a date range in text that could potentially span across 2 lines. Currently I simply have something like "01-Jan-2013 -> 05-Jan-2013" with the arrow being an ...
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How to indicate that part of a chart can be re-scaled or redefined visually to present a clearer, and/or more specific representation of the data?
I'm wondering about several issues I have with drill down behavior on graphs:
How can we visibly show that a certain graph is "drillable" (affordance issue).
In more details:
On a single chart, how ...
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How can I show marking state (for individual data values) in aggregate representations?
I am working with a data-visualization application where users can view individual data items and aggregate values. Users can also "mark" individual data items; the semantics of marking are simply ...
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What kind of UI metaphors can I use for this game-like community map interface?
I'm developing an interactive map for a local community WiFi network, where upcoming groups/meetings/alerts/etc. can be "dropped" onto the map, based on location. Through user engagement over time, ...
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Programs or markup viewers for legal or logical content?
I am interested in user interfaces that represent legal argumentation and/or logical reasoning. For professionals dealing with complex reasoning and argumentation that is mainly language-based, what ...
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Representing the presence of short events in a long timeline
I am designing an interactive timeline that shows the durations of events visually categorized into a small set (<8 categories). This timeline is very long compared to the length of events: events ...
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Data Visualisation For Scheduling
What is the best method for defining a scheduler visualisation (and editor)? Basically I think I am looking for something similar to a Gantt chart (not quite the same) where I have a start and end ...
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Using JQuery DataTables to display many columns
We have a large document archive. It is built similarly to how a Cassandra Database would store items having column names and column values stored for each item.
This can lead to having way to many ...
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Legacy Text Interface (e.g. Telnet) to GUI [closed]
I work in a very large, established company with a consistent philosophy of, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." The (large) division of the company that is responsible for maintaining customer ...
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How to display the hierarchical data [closed]
Some real ui javascript library wanted!
I have to display some hierarchical data on the web page. It should not be a classical tree view with the text items. I am looking for a graphical ...
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Infographics: show relationships between two sets and within them
I have two sets of objects, called "positive" and "negative". Objects are of the same type and can be compared, comparison results in real number from 0.0 to 1.0 (similarity).
What puzzles me right ...
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How to display large amounts of data compactly?
I have a database driven asp.net mvc3 web application. In it, a user can go to a page and enter data based on the completion of a task. I bolded the task because it is hugely weighted in this ...
