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How to best visually represent a dev team's skillset versus project needs?

I need to visually represent a dev team's skill set (and proficiency) against a project portfolio's required skill set. I have two separate tables, one for team members, and one for projects. Here is ...
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How can I make this graph not so misleading?

This is a graph from my app that is very misleading: Students take a test, then they learn the material, then they take the test again. We want to show the improvements in the students who have pre- ...
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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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Nonparametric vs. Parametric tests

I work as a UX Researcher for a mobile gaming company. We're discussing best practices in analysis, and my colleague suggested that we always use nonparametric tests (e.g., Mann-Whitney U rather than ...
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Scatter plot chart vs code flower (force directed) chart for data visualization

We've got a scatter plot chart which represents some data. Now, the client wants us to replace it with this code flower (force directed) chart. Implementation efforts is not the problem for us, ...
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How to analyse results for an open ended question?

I asked an open-ended question in a survey about one of our app's features (That is somewhat similar to its search feature) to find out why users would use this instead of search. I've got a large ...
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What might be the fastest way to delete (or modify) records from a tabular interface?

When managing huge number of records, its often a huge time confusing task when selecting a certain set of random records to do some task on them like, deleting, deactivation, activation etc. ...
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Complex filtering

I have a data table that needs complex filtering. It is that kind of interrogation that needs "GROUP BY any-of-the-column" "WHERE any-of-the-column = value" "SORT BY any-of-the-column". I know ...
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How to analyze quality of data to be used in an autosuggest or autocomplete?

How does one review and analyze the underlying data set for an autosuggest in order to know what mitigating choices to take with the autosuggest UX? I am concerned there may be problems in a data set ...
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What is better: A general dashboard area or one area for each context?

I´m working on the UX area of a company that works with a web application suite related with BPM, ECM, PFMEA, and a lot of other "letters". Now we are wornking on the integration, the analysis of the ...
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Another term used for dashboard in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics

I have been wondering if the term 'dashboard' is responsible for some of the less user-friendly versions of business dashboards that are floating around. As part of the strategy to get people ...
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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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Huge data in table in responsive email

I have a system where the tabular data is send via email and looks like the attachment. The table may have more than 50 rows in single email. Are there any solutions for this table view and use any ...
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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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Is there a heatmap solution that works behind a login redirect?

I've been looking for a heatmap to collect analytics on user clicks and behavior; however, I haven't found one that reliably works behind a login redirect. Surely something exists. I've tried: ...
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Grouping participants in a card sort analysis?

Instead of having one large subject pool of card sorting participants, has anyone ever tried segmenting their participants with a supplemental survey to define which persona they may fall into? If so, ...
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How to best communicate freshness of data in a report?

I have an app that involves large amounts of data that for the most part live-updates. That is, the users of the app can assume the data is fresh and up-to-the-moment. We are about to release a new ...
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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 is website industry benchmark for Net Promoter Score?

Industry benchmarks do exists for Net Promoter Scores. For example, the Consumer Software Industry (Sauro, 2011) has an average Net Promoter score of 21%--meaning a 20% is about average for products ...
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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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What do you think of data mining in user research?

As far as you know, how popular is this method in user research? What do you think of this method? Normally who are doing this job? People from UX team or other teams? What tools do they usually use ...
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What are some ways to display 3 dimensional data in a table?

I have some data that has 2 dimensions that I currently display the values of in a table. The dimensions are Gender & Age. For example "there are 12 thirty year old Males". Now I need to add a ...
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What are the fundamental Metrics in a data-driven design?

I'm keen to determine the an absolute list of fundamental metrics to gather for Data Driven design. I realise this can be a somewhat broad subject given the differing types of sites and web apps out ...
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How to display data behind a data point in a matrix?

I'm trying to design an internal tool for software testing purposes. We have a system that consists of a number of servers. To verify that the system as a whole is stable we monitor different ...
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Improving data usability

I'm working on a new version of a data analysis for robotics competitions. Among other things, I'd like to make it easier to view complex match statistics that are collected on each robot. Currently ...
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Looking for collected data concerning ux and web applications

Currently I'm trying to find out how to measure the user experience concerning web applications. I've already collected metrics like response time, device type, connectivity, bounce rate/conversion ...
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Analyzing website traffic data across different timezones

I haven't seen how different analytics platform document this type of information, but I was thinking about the difference in how you might analyze user behaviour on a website or social media account ...
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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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How to analyze Pre/Post Single Ease of use question data?

Hello all UX researchers, In my recent UX study, I used a single ease of use question at the start and end of the each task on the scale of 1 to 7 ( where 1= strongly disagree, 7= strongly agree). ...
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What's a good approach to analyze a lot of answers to a survey with open questions?

We asked our users what's their main goal of current visit (open question). We received a lot of answers and I'm wondering what would be the best approach to analyze this data. In theory I could ...
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What is the best way to show "Average" and "Max" of data usage per network in a chart?

Actually, my initial thought was to give a toggle to choose between the two options (Average and Max). But then this will also be generated as a PDF report apart from the UI. Currently there's no ...
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What is the most effective way to passively monitor users in a complex web-based system?

Focus is on interface use patterns, not on raw page views.
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Has anybody done a qualitative analysis of support tickets?

I am at a company with a low UX maturity and have little access to actual user data (no interviews, feedback filtered through business analysts, no user tests). What we do have however is a large ...
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Why people entering from category page goes to the homepage of my e-commerce as the second step of journey?

I'm trying to understand some data that I have on my hands. I intend to make a deep analysis but for this, I want to create a list of probable reasons that users take some actions. Then I can track ...
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How to manage and analyse user feedback [closed]

We have several user-feedback-channels: iOS and Android store reviews, web forms, support records. Is there a tool that can help merge all this feedback in one place? What is the best way to process ...
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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 are the best ways to capture/organize usability test data for interpretation?

I'm in the process of doing some usability testing this week for one our iOS apps. We're having them attempt a few targeted tasks to test goals like New users should be able to signup with their ...
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Industry standard drop rate percentages?

When evaluating the registration of a product, and have access to the analytics, is there a good measurement on what a decent "drop-rate" percentage might be? By drop-rate, I am referring to how many ...
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Time-consuming "Request - response" steps in desktop application

I prototype OLAP-analytics desktop application, that contains a lot of screens, that generate reports. Common process of such generation is: Users sets up analytics parameters (period, data segment ...
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Most natural way to visualize portions of highly skewed data (within a small space)

I'm currently working with a dataset that consists of numbers ranging from 0-255, but that's heavily skewed towards the 70-100 range. Anything below 70 is considered low and anything above ~110 is ...
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UX Benchmarking: How much detail should be collected from a user within an enterprise product?

There's a lot of value collecting benchmark data about a user's experience over time. The problem that we are running into is how much information should we ask from our user to help us make informed ...
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Feedback on how to compare two groups of data visually on one page?

I have a site that allows you to set up two groups of criteria (here it is two categories of products) by searching and refining, then allows you to view data and analysis of these two groups of ...
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Data visualisation - how to visualize relative size of data charts related to each dimension rather than the overall amount of replies

Currently, I redesign a data-driven platform and what is confusing is a presentation of data on a comparison view. As you can see the bar's size is relative for each value (rows), but not relative to ...
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How to determine if the conversion rate is high or low?

The test is to trace CTR. Only variation has button so the test results as below: Original - Visitors: 120170, Conversion rate: 0 Variation - Visitors: 121058, Conversion rate: 15256 Next step is to ...
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Transforming qualitative and quantitative data or methods

I can see how a large number of interviews and video can be compiled and analysed numerically (i.e. turning qualitative research into quantitative research), but is it not possible to turn ...
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How could we use the Google Play's or App store's reviews as useful data for UX improvements?

We are running a mobile app and we want to find out how we can get the most value from the reviews we receive, how to treat them as valuable data in order to take decisions from there
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How to allow users to opt out from data tracking tools?

Our team is implementing Hotjar and Google analytics so we can start tracking data to help us improve the user experience but I was thinking it would be ethical to allow users to opt out if they don't ...
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Is fair comparison a must in AB testing?

I wonder if the elements in AB test need to be exactly the same so as to allow a fair comparison? I found it personally depending on different scenarios. For example if it's a AB test in smaller ...
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Better way to compare two data sets visually on a page?

I have a site that allows you to set up two groups of criteria (here it is states in the USA) by searching and refining, then allows you to view data and analysis of these two groups of criteria on ...
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Metro guidelines or windows Desktop UX guidelines

I'm designing for a big data-analysis app, lots of data in tables, graphs etc. It'll very likely only ever be a desktop app. However, the project team were concerned that they didn't want to produce ...
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