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Tagged with data info-visualisation
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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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Tufte's data density, readability and comparison
I'm intrigued by Tufte's data density. While I love his definition of data / ink ratio which can be easily measured, I have hard time measuring data density.
He defines data density in a graphic as a ...
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How to present weighted values
I have a formula which is used to calculate certain scores. The formula has some parameters (shown in the image below) including a Weight parameter that is changed dynamically (the rest of the inputs ...
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graph exploration and data overload
I love to visualize huge graphs (this is a hobby: http://anvaka.github.io/pm/ ). One problem however that keeps me awake at night, is data overload in such graphs.
If I render all connections inside ...
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What is the best way to graphically display item's position in a ranking?
My app has a table containing a list of financial securities. One of the columns is the security's position in a list of all available securities ranked by performance.
For example: security XYZ is ...
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How to handle out-of-range data in a realtime plot?
Background
I am working on real-time data acquisition and visualization software for a scientific measurement device. The software gathers data from the device, and plots the data in real time. Data ...
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What is the best way to create an eye-catching display of numeric values in a web page?
I am going to design a management level monitoring page for displaying some sums and counts. No interaction is allowed and it will be used as a monitoring page on a big LCD in the managers view. The ...
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Necessity of y-axis label on a line graph?
I'm currently designing a line graph to provide a relative, "quick-glance" view of data trends, rather than the granular stock-market-style view. There will only be one trend line.
Currently each of ...
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Best way to display graphs and data visualization of multiple variables and complex data in mobile?
I'm struggling with some data visualization for a mental health app.
This app evaluates different mental states (lack of pleasure, sadness, focus, Nervousness) via a questionnaire.
The questionnaire ...
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Interesting visualizations for a personnel in-out control
I have a database with the data of all the company personnel in and out through several facilities (All people must put their fingerprint in the scanner to open doors)
I'm looking for interesting way ...
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Would having a generic waveform be too confusing for users?
I'm currently working on a redesign of an online radio. It does not have a lot of content, so I decided to make the player the dominant element of the home page. I would like the design itself to be ...
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how to explain logarithmic scale to a non-techie user
In the product we sell, we show comparisons between websites on a number of metrics. Some of those metrics are best displayed with linear graphs, some are best displayed with logarithmic graphs.
As ...
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Examples of nice looking html tables [closed]
All tables on my app look like sh*t, it's making me lose hair, I've been trying to make them look better but I end up making them look worse, do you have any examples of nice looking tables? ...
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How to represent quantity in an X / Y axis grid without taking too much space?
We have a graph that displays the symptoms (y axis) and the ages of people who have them (x axis). The bigger the circle, means more people of the same age range share the same symptoms.
Example of ...
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Maps with Multiple Heat Maps and Other Data
We're about to embark on a small project that requires us to plot various data on a map. Some examples that we need to put on the map:
Population
Income
House Prices
Crime
Etc
Examples 1-3 could be ...
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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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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 thought. ...
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Why do histograms not have spaces in between bars (as opposed to a bar graph)?
Lets say one wants a histogram . Say how many trades for a stock occurred on that day. And they are dead set on a histogram/bar graph. (as opposed to other representations
why are histograms ...
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What is the name of this dashboard UI element?
I've seen many dashboards or statistics pages/screens to have some kind of "dashboard header" in which larger text or graphics are present. They are designed to give an overview of important ...
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Best Type of Chart for Numbers inside Matrix?
I have a matrix that looks like the following, and I want to make a chart out of it because the numbers are just too much to look at. What is the easiest way to digest this information? We are trying ...
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Ways to indicate a series is selected on a line chart
I have a program that displays a dense collection of line series. I can select series from a tree view to the left of the chart.
My issue is I need an elegant way to show the user which line series ...
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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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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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Representing both large and small quantities of task based data
I have a task to re-create a chaser page in our existing task-based application.
The product is a SAAS product. Some customers may have 5-20 tasks which require chasing on a weekly/monthly basis. ...
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Tabs vs Scroll in content heavy website
I have a content heavy website. In a particular page there will be lot of data to be presented to the user.
There are two options.
Full Scroll
Just present the data grouped properly with proper ...
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What is the difference between a dashboard and a report?
The words 'dashboard' and 'report' are used extensively in data visualization applications such as Google Analytics.
But what exactly are the defining characteristics of each? And how, precisely, do ...
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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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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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How to display a multi-valued heatmap chart
I will try to describe the issue in a simulation similar to my case, I went with the vehicles:
A company that performs tests for vehicles of the types (Truck, Car, Motorcycle) wants to display score ...
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How to eliminate a repeating tree hierarchy for the types that share the same structure?
Below there is a modal where I have three categories that contain the same tree structure.
Is there a way I can consolidate or simplify these three structures into one or maybe restructure this in a ...
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How to display huge sum of hours
I have a table which sums up worked hours for each project.
When the ammount of hours is huge, has still sense use hh:mm format, or decimal format could be more clear?
Reading, for example 7650:30, ...
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What is the impediment to a data-driven design process?
Many government organisations and agencies are adopting the GOV.UK - GDS design principles, and it has certainly resulted in the trend of government websites becoming less cluttered and content-...
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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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Capacity available representation? Percentages or coloured icons?
Currently, capacity available is represented using a single icon in green, yellow, or red (green = lots, yellow = some, red = low).
Due to API changes, there is an option to modify this data to show ...
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How to obscure data in a screen captured image?
Many people I work with need to share a report with sensitive data. This is usually a multistep process where the user takes a screenshot of a chart or graph with numbers and then manually removes, ...
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What data visualization fit my Air pollution app
I have created an app that measures 7 Air pollution parameters (like dust, and car pollution, etc...) and combine the results in to the final pollution level:
this is the app description and here is a ...
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Designing legends to handle overlapping/sequential values
I'm moving this question from gis.stackexchange to UX, as UXD's, I think, are better equipped to answer this question. I have always struggled to come up with a great solution to handle quantitative ...
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What would be a good way to visualize recent win/loss (player form) data?
I have data like this which represents the recent form (win/loss record) of a player:
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Now, I want to visualize this data. What would be a good way to do so? The purpose is to ...
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Highlighting differences between old and new results and conveying value to user
Context
I have a dashboard where I want to highlight-
A. Total data that the user has uploaded on our system and the amount of matches against that data in our database.
B. The amount of difference ...
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Design for a scatter plot graph
I am designing a data vis platform and there are two primary form factors of the graphs, large and small. In designing these graphs, I'm trying to avoid the terminal ugliness of most platforms while ...
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preloading strategies for searching large amounts of data
So I have encountered a similar situation described as the one below.
Lets day a sales person from Ford is shipping a new car to one of the thousands of rental car places they do buisiness in the ...
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configuration mode on canvas
I am creating a switch visualisation system for IT managers, one of the features I am adding is creating a new authorization relationship between one switch to another. so that one switch is the ...
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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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Shaded line graphs: Good or bad?
I've been staring at this design for way too long and I need an outside view.
These are not stacked line graphs (a no-no in data vis) but two graphs occupying the same space. Does the shaded area ...
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Visualisation of 10-12 star-based-items in a review site
I need to create a page with 10 or 12 items. Each item is a criteria for review that can be voted by the user between 1 and 4 stars. But, the problem is that it is a really strange visualisation to ...
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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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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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Design Options for Weighted Directed Graphs
My question in brief: what are some reasonable design options for displaying data in weighted, directed, cyclical graphs?
The longer version: I have some data that details shipments of goods from one ...
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Displaying course data with 90+ values
Description:
Hello, web developer here! I have been tasked to show scores for a online course that people have purchased. So I built a line graph that went up and down based on the score (naturally). ...
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Navigate from monthly to daily view in a dashboard
I need to provide users a way to view data on a dashboard on a monthly basis or daily basis. It should be possible to navigate back and forth from daily to monthly view.
The users should also be ...
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