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Tagged with data info-visualisation
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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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Showing year on year data visually in a map
I am working on visualizing year-on-year data in a map. This data needs to be shown on the map, show what year the data was recorded in, and convey the frequency/total amount of records at a specific ...
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Display accessibility reports in a concise way
The following is meant to be full screen on a website like a dashboard.
I have accessibility reports for different webpages.
Which gives accessibility scores and mark them as critical or serious and ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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Highlighting differences between old and new results and conveying value to user
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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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How do you balance dynamic data driven dashboards with design and UX?
I see hundreds of posts and design shots of "dashboards" on things like Dribbble etc - but what lots of them neglect is that they're only ever representing one or two sets of data.
How do you present ...
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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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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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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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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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Best choice for data with multiple variables?
I am tasked with creating an interactive visualization of tasks, where the visualization needs to show:
- task importance
- task progress
- task state (active, completed)
- task relationship (tasks ...
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Displaying course data with 90+ values
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ideal visualization for popular book pages [closed]
Curious for some input regarding the ideal visualization for the most popular pages in a book. We have a data set that shows traffic (hits, essentially).
The use case is this:
We're tracking songs ...
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Graph values inside a set of values, best way to display?
We are developing an application, and we have a problem with a part of the UI. We need to display the forecast for the next days, but the values of the forecast falls down into a set of levels {1,2,3,...
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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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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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Visualising assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses - together
I'm at the start of a project which is all about visualising and comparing the balance sheet of large organisations, primarily defined by these four numbers: assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses. ...
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Ways to Show Relative Rank?
I am comparing 3 columns of data with multiple rows. For each row I want to show the highest, lowest and middle number. The middle number is not the mean.
I've considered "1st, 2nd, 3rd" but I don't ...
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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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Name for specific design type instance
So if you look at my little visual example below, the format on top I assume would just be technically referred to as a Grid or Tabular format, but if you were to break each of those rows out and make ...
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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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Which D3JS data chart is most similar to a scheduler?
I realize this is a borderline SO question. I am trying to figure out which of the examples on D3JS most closely resembles a scheduler or Gantt chart so I can use it in our app.
I think bullet ...
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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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how to display multiple graphs on a single page?
I have make a graphic where I need to show user trends.
I will call them A, B, C, D -- brands of cell phones.
My users are not very good at reading charts.
Are there ways to combine features of ...
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