Questions tagged [data]
Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
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How do you differentiate between '0' and 'no data' on a graph?
I am working on platform that shows data on a graph over a period of weeks. Right now, weeks with no data and weeks when there is data but the property is 0 are shown visually the same.
On hover, it's ...
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Any ideas for a half success, half error modal?
I am working on a forecasting tool where a user enters their current week's data and our tool outputs a forecast for the following week's data.
The user can have various sets of data. When our tool ...
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What to do when the record has been edited by another user (aka "optimistic locking conflict")
Optimistic locking is the go-to solution if your backend is stateless (e.g. REST) and/or editing conflicts are rare. In a nutshell, the idea is to allow concurrent access to a resource, but, upon ...
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Filter all the data - big data load
I'm creating a platform that has a lot of company data, around 200,000 companies with 1000 branches each, so it's a lot.
When we load the platform we usually don't show anything until we have loaded ...
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How to display a bar chart for users' test scores if you have more than 50 users
For an admin panel I have to present visually the employees' test scores and after lots of searching to decide which data visualization is the best I decided to choose the vertical bar chart but as ...
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Ways to display images in a data table
I have data table to show, some columns are of type "image".
Airtable, for example, displays images directly in the cells, but it makes the rows very thick :
That thickness is not required ...
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The desired general experience for loading data on a webpage?
I am working on a web framework and curious what the best practice is for how to load data into a "page". The general function is, the page has a set of data (record(s), like JSON data), or ...
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How to show number of outcomes per filter applied? [advanced filtering]
I'm working on an advanced filter for a data platform containing many thousands of rows.
My filter is split in to categories, which then have various options for the user to select.
I'm looking to be ...
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What is the best way to have two exclusive sets of filters above a data table?
I have two sets of filters which work with the same data. There is a table of data below those two sets of filters.
But if one set of filters is applied, modified, i.e. worked with, I completely ...
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In desktop apps, is it necessary to display information to the user after adding/modifying data?
Should desktop apps display an information to the user after e.g. adding new customer to the database?
I see that some apps do this, some others don't.
Is this kind of information necessary to the ...
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Application with Multiple Modules: shared vs separate data types
This is my first post here, I apologize if this is confusing but I attempted to make it clear as possible.
The web application is one big application for multiple related teams. We have split up these ...
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How to prevent users from spamming the system with record updates back and forth?
I have struggled with the UX for this general problem for quite some time, and not sure the best way to handle it. The basic problem is, imagine a user submitting a dictionary term. Say you can ...
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Imposing text limit in form without affecting old data
We have a form with fields below:
Code
Item Name
Description
When we reviewed the list of 'Code' in customer database, we noticed that the 'Code' values tends to be quite long. It seems like the ...
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Dealing with non-fluid data tables
I have pages consisting of mainly data tables. So far I'm using a fluid design with Bootstrap's rows/cols. Here is an example:
As you can see at the bottom of the page, table 1 has very wide columns ...
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Refresh button in addition to 60 second auto refresh?
This may be an obvious question (I'm hoping so, since I'm new to this), but I haven't found an overall rule of thumb for this online or in this forum. In a data table for large data sets, the auto ...
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Good UX for Data Vis for Multiple X-Axis of Different Time Scales?
I'm currently trying to create a singular data visualization of a dot plot with datasets that have similar y-axis scales, but different x axis scales. The x-axis scales range from daily (Jan 1, Jan 2),...
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How to show negative and positive values in a graphic for data visualisation
I am preparing a proof of concept for a user account dashboard to show positive and negative values within a graph of some sort.
My current solution is to use a pie chart with positive and negative ...
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User Interface for Deduplicating Records
I am looking for UX interface patterns that can be used to dedupe records.
Suppose, for example, one has a database of customers. Perhaps Ronald T. Wiggins and Ronald Wiggins are both in the database ...
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How to simplify the filter
I´m working on the UI of the filter page that would allow the user to filter the Projects/Assets/Sub-assets to visualize the data. We are implementing a new "sub-asset" feature which will ...
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Using 2 side-by-side tables to display a long list of key-value pairs?
I've a list with 20+ key-value pairs that I need to display in my app. The data is static and cannot be edited.
I'm using a table, currently it looks like this:
keyA
valueA
keyB
valueB
keyC
valueC
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How to best display the contents of a flat JSON file
I'm designing a web app that can import a custom JSON file. The file is completely flattened, meaning every value is only a single layer deep.
The user is importing data into the app. The data comes ...
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How to create a hierarchy within filters in filter bar
Currently, I create a survey builder where the user is able to preview all pre-defined questions within the database and based on this user chooses what type of survey would like to create. Based on ...
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Shall keep the table header if it's an empty table?
I got the feedback from UX expert who suggested displaying the table header even though that there is no data created, UX expert thought if have table header, user can foresee what kind of information ...
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How can we communicate how leading zeros work for a number generator?
In the project controls software I am working on, uses needs to generate unique codes before exporting scheduling data to dedicated scheduling software. Part of this code will be an ascending number.
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What should I use in a calendar: horizontal scroll or pagination?
I am working on a calendar in the system to be used on a tablet, and have a question:
Imagine that you are a store manager and you want to view the calendar (in this case by week) for 2 or more ...
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Pattern for a form state/content, after an update data fail
Usually when there is a form on a website, a user fills it in then saves it. If the saving operation fails, is it considered a good UX practice to retain the entered form data? (Since the user shouldn'...
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How do you compare two trends on the same chart when one metric higher = positive, second metric higher = negative?
So we have two metrics that could potentially go on the same chart because they are semi-related and the user will want to compare them. However, when the first metric has a higher percentage, it is ...
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Line chart - do you add a legend to one variable data visualisation?
I started to consider what's the best practice for one-variable data visualization? Shall the legend be included in this case or not? What's important the component headliner indicates what's data ...
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How should I visualize the average of two bars in a bar chart?
I am presenting results from an experiment in an academic publication. Here is what the figure currently looks like:
The gray bars are the averages of the red and the blue bars.
Goals
I want to show ...
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How can I display large amount of active organizations within the platform?
Currently when the user uses the platform is able to choose an active organization (within his organization) and which data he wants to include. The current solution indicates a narrow bar under the ...
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What is the right way to display the KPI number?
I'm designing a dashboard, and one of the cards should display the status of the activated users - if there's any problem - it's should emphasize that and show how many users are not activated.
The ...
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How to decrease a cognitive load on a dashboard component?
Any suggestions on how I can decrease the cognitive load on the example below? The development, benchmark, and amount of comments regarding each question are equally important for the user. I think ...
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'Add Another' button in mobile
Context
I have an issue with a form, let's call it the parent form.
Inside the parent form, you can 'Add Item'.
Once you click the 'Add Item' button, it will navigate you to a new screen where you ...
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Is it okay to use different thickness in a line graph?
Can we use different line thicknesses in a line chart to make a line prominent and easier to catch? The goal is to make one of the lines stand out from the rest (say average traffic).
This chart may ...
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Should I Store User Data Locally on Device or Server Side Database
I'm currently working on a 'mental wellness' app, functionality for which include things such as;
Making journal entries (typed and voice recorded)
To Do Notes
Setting Goals/Targets
Recording ...
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Correct column order of comparison data table
I need to design a table where the user will have to approve new values. The table will show two old values and the difference between the old and the new (the percentage represents the difference ...
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USA date format best practise
I am working on a table that displays dates by using USA format. I was wondering which format below is more legible or usable - I guess there's a slight difference between these two, but I was ...
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Overtime + 2 other aspects data visualization
What kind of data visualization can show 3 aspects of the data including time (the others are the number of conversions and revenue)?
For example, I thought about bubble chart where size is one aspect ...
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What's the best alternative to export thousands of rows?
I have an application that has many reports. Those reports includes thousands of rows with dozens of columns (too much data). My customers sometimes need to export this data to a .csv file, just to ...
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Layout for many independent navigation in a section of a webapp
There are many sub section in my project and I am not able to find right pattern for the layout the user navigates into the section from side navigation bar and then there are close to 25 sub sections....
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How to motivate users to archive/delete to improve the performance of the system?
Users on our platform can create lists of groups that have unique items. The number of items in these lists can reach millions.
Over time users have created hundreds of these lists to use in various ...
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Interface for users that need to fill in data for thousands of items
The problem I encounter is that I have thousands of items a day (e.g. transactions of toys that have been purchased in a store). My goal is to provide the users with an interface to fill in manually ...
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Listing multiple events with sub-events on a page
I have a fairly large collection of martial arts events that I'm listing on a page.
Each event happened on a given date and in a given location (country, state, city).
Each event has one or more ...
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How to verify that services are being used by a customer
I have a project, which is sending surveys to customers as soon as they use certain services like restaurants, beauty salons,...so how can these customers verify that they actually used this service?
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Organizing editable content on mobile
I am working on altering a mobile UI for a client who needs to be able to add and edit data very efficiently, so in my mind efficiency > design.
My re-design is a lot more efficient than the previous,...
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Input data in data tables
I have to design a data table which is going to be 288 rows and 15 in size. I want to make it easy for users to input data efficiently. The data covers an entire day, in 5 minutes intervals, i.e. (...
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What kind of chart is this?
This is not a donut chart.. not showing distribution here. These are different attributes contributing to the total score (in the middle)
Another example:
The thickness of the wedge is proportionate ...
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What is the best way to show the Key/value pairs that has no data?
When there is no data for some of the attributes (key/value pairs) in the info/properties card, what is the best way to represent it? IMO, those attributes with null values to be shown as well with "-"...
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How to describe two variables in a heatmap?
I need to describe distribution of showtimes across day-hours and their occupancy.
Showtimes distribution across day-hours can be described using a simple heatmap/ table, e.g.
Here each times-cell ...
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Displaying Table inside Table
We have table setup like below. Before you click the plus table looks like
Once you click on the plus next to any row, it opens up like this
So as you can imagine if the user opens up too many ...