Any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message.
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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 ...
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Indicating relationships between multiple gauges or charts representing different views of the same data
The problem
We have a need to show the status of a daily ingest of thousands of files coming from different senders. A quick mockup is this:
The problem is that Ipsum and Dalore are just sub-views ...
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Force Directed graph for visualizing hierarchical forms Bad Idea?
Currently we got lots of forms which we realize using Tree-view. Person clicks the tree node and a forms we designed for that opens in page aside the tree-view(Using the tree-view because there is ...
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Which design pattern to use for showing users task completeness?
For instance I have some data like this:
I have multiple users, every users has tasks which could be:
not started
completed
in progress
done
When I want to achieve clear separation of users, ...
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Charts or Tables
I have been working on a dashboard where a chart and a table are requested. However, both would contain the same data.
For instance, it is required that a country map is shown, with the values of ...
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visualising session data
I'm recording Users session data for my sites. I record login and logout dates/times along with pages viewed and country codes of where they visited from.
I'm having trouble working out which graphs ...
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Price ranges vs concrete price for 3rd party vendors
I'm building a website for a consulting firm that creates websites for its customers. In the website there is a small section that mentions a few hosting services as well as their prices (just for the ...
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How to visualize a large Neural Net?
How to visualize a Neural Net with thousands of input nodes and tens of thousands of connections?
The image above does not have any connection values, but the visualization that I am creating does. ...
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Information Graphics vs Brand Awareness
I'm looking for some information on mapping color to graphs. To be more specific, I've got a bunch of graphs that represent Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and now Google+ in line charts. We've had an on ...
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Interaction model for hierarchical selection
For a line chart, I would like the user to be able to drill-down and look at how specific groups are fairing over time. First, there is the selection of dimension and then groups within that ...
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Way to display a lot of end-game data
I am building a web app for providing League of Legends players with a more detailed match history and statistics as well as an internal ranking system (for friends) and achievements, as well as an ...
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Feature Matrix: Compare Products by Date/Time Range?
Problem Statement
It is common to allow a user to compare two or more products in a matrix that lists features/benefits down one axis and the selected products along the other. But how do you ...
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Colour status notification for admin
I have to design , a website for a inventory storage firm. The items that are displayed , have three different status
1) In the store
2) Outside
3) Under Process,
When user , visits the homepage, ...
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Seeking research and guidance: what is the maximum usable density of lines in a line graph?
I am seeking any guidance and hopefully published research for guidance about line density in line graphs.
Here is a hypothetical example: I want to show a line graph depicting frequency of code ...
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1answer
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Data visualization for small web projects
What's an example of good data visualization for a small web projects?
I don't want to overwhelm the client. I must track progress, and keep stakeholders engaged.
What I've got so far
PERCENT OF ...
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Representing overlapping groups
I have a grid that represents a grid of seats. Each seat has several different properties (for simplicities sake, lets say seats are Standard or Advanced, with Advanced seats being more expensive).
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Examples of software that generates stuff based on templates and various inputs [closed]
We've just started thinking about a new product (to be used internally at a company) that:
Takes in multiple inputs (hundreds)
Has a large set of templates (thousands)
Has a large set of previously ...
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Is there a widely-understood visual metaphor for using part or all of an existing item to make a new one? [closed]
I'm looking to convey the following functionality to users: able to take part or all of an existing short text entry and make a new, related text entry from it.
For example, if a user encounters the ...
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2answers
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How can I handle long text displayed inside a bar in a bar-chart?
I'm working on a project where one of the reports I'm displaying on screen is a type of Gantt Chart. The customer wants some information about the activity the bar represents displayed inside of the ...
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Ideal number of data points per 100 pixels for a chart
If there are too many data points too close together in an image, it can look pretty choppy.
In this case, we are tracking number of data points over time; eg 500 per minute, 500 per minute, etc.
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Graphing Uptime
I am trying to find a way to graph uptime. What is the traditional way to graph the uptime of a device? If the device provides an uptime statistic, how should that be used to graph it. I know how a ...
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Symbols to represent dynamic items
This problem is not new to me.
An user can have multiple interests, so he will check some items that is presented to him. For this example. Ten items of interest.
So he will mark as interested in ...
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How to let the user know that we have not enough data to render chart?
...in various charts like line, pie and column charts.
What a message to show?
In what place?
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Graphic design critique parameters
I am working at a consulting company these days and I am having some issues with graphic designers I work with. Basically I have tested the graphic designers in various short projects for the ...
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How to visualize cause and effect relationships with diagrams?
How can I model relationships where one or more causes produces an effect? I hope that such diagrams may make some of my ideas clearer to the user than just a block of text. Are there some tools that ...
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Time based activity feed aggregation - What time?
I am implementing a news feed similiar to Facebook's.
Essentially, the feeds are stored as individual items:
1 Nov 2012 9:00 AM [John] was [tagged] in [photo album "Halloween 2012"]
1 Nov 2012 9:20 ...
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One page websites - do and don't
I'm about to develop one-page website. But suddenly I'm not sure this is the right solution.
The content characteristics are:
Contains 8 sections.
The sections depend on each other: section 2, for ...
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2answers
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Replacement for Grid or Table Data Visualization for Mobile Apps
What could be the best replacement for Grid data visualization in terms of displaying multiple data elements with same structure in mobile apps.
To Elaborate..Well, lets say we have 10 rows and 5 ...
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Display that a text input is not applicable
I am using the top row of an HTML table as a 'copy down' control row. So you can over-ride the values in the rows you've selected below (each row has a check box - similar to the phpMyAdmin ...
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Visualizing structure and intermediate results of a computation
I have a financial desktop application and there are many places where different computations are performed and a single number (or a couple numbers) is shown as a result.
Very often users are ...
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How shall I display my application version and contact details to the end user
The traditional approach for displaying application information to user is through Menu.
User select Help > About and we display a popup displaying the details.
Is there a better approach doing ...
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Image thumbnail representation for paragraph text
in my app, a user would have a set of posts.
Some posts (like 50% of em) would have media attached, while some of them would not.
There are several instances where I would like to give thumbnails ...
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'Quick select' date ranges - from web forms to Stock Markets is there a unifying standard? (and should there be?)
I see two major schools of thought/implementations of 'quick select' date range options:
A) General web apps
| today | yesterday | last 7 days | last month | last 3 months | ...etc. | Custom |
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Project dependency visualization and navigation
I have to visualize software project dependencies and provide a way to navigate through the dependencies. I want to combine showing the dependencies of the currently selected project as well as ...
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How to visualize sentiment analysis of social media (ex: tweets)?
I'm trying to research potential ideas for visualizing sentiment analysis - specifically sentiment analysis of Tweets about a subject. I have some data and have bucketed the tweets into three buckets ...
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Need icons for SQL datatypes [closed]
I'm looking for icons which could be used to visually represent the various datatypes of SQL Server (for a nice db-doco). Is such a thing out there somewhere (commercially or public domain) or would I ...
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Can I get some inspiration on displaying visualization for a tabular data in addition to displaying it in a table? [closed]
I need to display a report on back end data. The report is basically the distribution of Vendors by devices on the network. I am using jquery datatables for my tabular data and google charts treemap ...
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Examples of great Activity Feed Visualisations [closed]
It´s surprising how little variation there is today on activity feeds, everybody seems to copy FB.
What I´m trying find is alternative forms of visualisation of activity feeds, ones that use more ...
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Check-boxes vs. Icons
I have a table with hundreds of records. Each of the rows might have one or many check-boxes. Something that looks like this:
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq ...
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Tool for making attractive Org Charts and similar diagrams [closed]
I'm a professor who is looking for a diagramming tool that will make "org chart" type and flowchart diagrams that look really slick and attractive. There are many mindmap tools out there, but I'm ...
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Does animating statistical data make it easier to understand?
I'm looking at this presentation at Ted.com, and it uses impressive animated statistics:
Hans Rosling: Stats that reshape your worldview
Does using animated data make understanding statistical data ...
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How to convey element dimensions to casual users?
In a CMS backend dialog for controlling the dimensions of a content element (e.g. an image) including the possibility to adjust padding, borders and margins;
In a GUI, what is a good way to convey ...
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Visualizing a Content Audit
I would like to create a graphical representation of a content audit I have done on an intranet.
My purpose is fairly simple: cut through the perception that there is much more content that is much ...
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What's an alternative to data tables for key/value pairs?
I have a list of 8 key/value pairs I'm displaying in a sidebar using a table element. I'm using a th and td element on each row. However, the td content is often too long and has to be truncated. I ...
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Presenting comparable data series with varying frequency
I've a data design challenge that requires the presentation of data where the data is comparable (can be plotted or presented as a table) but who's data points are inconsistent.
Inconsistency occurs ...
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Skipped vs Unknown indication
I've got a form where you can make some stuff become arbitrarily unknown and some stuff become skipped based on the way you answer the questions (there is some overlap, things can be both skipped and ...
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What is the best way to display info from a table that has 20+ fields? [duplicate]
I have a giant table that has more than 20 columns and 10 pages with 15 rows each!
How can I display this data in a way that's readable and understandable for the user?
What alternatives exist?
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Libraries to create this type of chart? [closed]
The website I'm building will have content in various languages. I'm looking for a nice way to present the "langages" data, for those interested.
I really like this visualisation : ...
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Challenge: Activity Feed Visualisations [closed]
What´s the best/most interesting way of displaying fullscreen activity feeds besides the well-known FB style?
It´s surprising how little variation there is today on activity feeds, everybody seems to ...
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Developing the news area for a website
I'm developing a simple website to a small company. It has a back-office (built with PHP and mySQL) for edit/ add/ remove some content like products and news.
The news has some text and an image. ...
