Questions tagged [info-visualisation]
Any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message.
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Representing multi layered data in dashboard
I am working on a new component for a B2B dashboard, and I am at an impasse trying to come up with an intuitive way to show this data, and would really appreciate your fresh perspectives.
We have ...
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How to make a visual table comparison?
I have to redesign a comparison between the two tables. The rows with differences should highlight the attribute which is different (see image). My problem is: it grows really fast. I start thinking ...
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Best way to visualize graph: Times when a Device has been turned On
I have an app that monitors anywhere from 1-100 devices
These devices can be turned ON & OFF at anytime
The user needs to see times when the devices have been turned ON only.
I have drafted a ...
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How to display detailed information inside modal
I'm currently designing a 3-step creator for detecting objects in a live video stream with the help of AI.
The modal below shows the video and the radio button-like object selectors. However, I also ...
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How to show student progress on a teacher dashboard?
I'm designing a dashboard for teachers to monitor the progress of their students. This screen can have 20 to 50 students and when the teacher selects a start date, I would like to show the difference ...
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How do I subtly show that an element in large collection of elements was recently changed?
I have a large collection of elements displayed in a calendar-like grid. These elements represent entities that can change over time, but many won't. The elements are rendered like cards, evoking a ...
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How to concisely represent a set of statistics on a dashboard?
I'm designing a dashboard for a web app representing statistics related to a quiz/test.
I'm using visual aids like charts, icons and other cards displaying a small piece of information.
Each such card ...
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Displaying overlapping user data reflecting the status of an inventory in a horizontal stacked bar chart
I have an app in which users can track items. The app will flag when there are issues with items:
Warnings (orange UI colour)
Low stock
Expiring this month
Problems (red UI colour)
Out of stock
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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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Styling a hint for relative numerical value
Background:
I have a list of elements in a browser which each are a numerical distance away from the same origin point. I want to give a visual hint to quickly give a feeling for how far a list-item ...
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How to visualize graph with different data types: boolean & integer?
I have two variables:
A is an integer from 0-1000u (u=some arbitrary unit)
B is either 1 or 0
I need to visualize a graph (or graphs) to show the relationship of A & B (y-axis) against t (time; ...
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How to make coloured object of the same 'weight' as its white counterpart?
I'm currently doing a report and this is one of the cards presented on the report. I feel that the header seems a little flat and out of place - I assume it's because it is coloured, but I may be ...
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Visualize Date gaps and dates overlapping
A part can have one successor or multiples successors.
A part can also have one predecessor or multiple predecessor
The problem we have we want to quickly be able to view which part has which ...
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Examples of two/multiple facet scoring?
Working on an interesting scenario - we need to communicate a "score" that has two facets:
A percentage based score that has a threshold that must be met to pass (90%)
Specific items that ...
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How would you visualize authorization deviation with 90+ rules?
Users can preselect an authorization set (1). And, later on, modify the set. As a user, I want to see how the original authorization set differs from the one I changed. So I can see which ...
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Any best practice on how to represent player progress stat in a game?
I'm making a musical game where user should recognize notes and get faster at note reading. I'm in the designing process and I get quite stuck on the designing of the player progress on the level ...
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Best way to present multiple types of data in a cluster bar chart?
This company has two different customer types and they all have two different kind of contracts. The aim here was to show all the contract prices in the same chart. As you can see I tried to map ...
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Textbased RPG: in a battle, how can I distinguish between your actions and the enemy?
In my game, the way my battles work is you attack and sometimes the enemy attacks in return. It's always one on one. Here's how this looks:
The first line is your action, the rest is the enemy's. ...
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Benefits of displaying information in a grid of cards over a table list?
I can appreciate that using a grid of cards is useful when there are pictures or graphical information to display. However, are there any other pros/cons of using one over the other to display a large ...
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Visualisation Legend Scrollable or alternative solution?
The data visualisations that I am working with could have up to 20 categories in the legend, which presents a problem. This is due to visuals been inside a card with a fixed height.
As a result I am ...
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Visualizing squashed availability of N-items
I'm trying to squash the availability view of n-items into a single day column in an availability calendar. The use case is for reserving products. We can have n-pieces of any particular product, say ...
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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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Best way to show employee performance data in 5 minute blocks for multiple employees performing various tasks throughout the day?
I am working on web development project that will let warehouse managers view their employee's performance.
There are nine different tasks that an employee does repeatedly throughout the day. The ...
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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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What results to display when comparing current and past data?
Working on an analytics dashboard that allows the user to select a recent date range with the option to compare that date range against a previous time period.
Now, let's say they want to see how ...
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data visualization - how to visualize the lack of data for certain amount of time
Currently, I'm redesigning the line chart. Sometimes for the chosen time period, the user might lack data. I need to visualize it. Someone has any experience what would be the best solution? is it ...
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How to fix this issue of showing multi-color coded events on a timeline?
I need to show multiple(8-10) type of repetitive events on a horizontal timeline in a multi-color coded fashion. But this approach seems to be harder for user to grasp and lead to high cognitive load. ...
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Information on Duration or Start/End Time
My question has split my team in the middle, so I'm here for more opinions. We have this Gantt Chart where you can extend/shrink tasks by hovering then dragging them from start/end. When this ...
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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 implement a side filer bar for smaller screens without overlying the platform content
Currently, I'm working on a data-driven platform. I designed a side filter bar which allows user to filter data dependable of his needs. The problem appears on smaller screens. After a discussion with ...
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Simple ways to display search results with lots of text and enable easy parsing of information
I'm working on some test infrastructure stuff in my company and developing a web front-end meant for comparing the results of different UI tests (automatic ones running in the background mostly).
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How to handle data addition in data grid when data is sorted
I have data grid in application which has pagination and the latest added record is added on top. If the data is already sorted on a column and another record is added to the table how should the ...
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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 distinguish Time-bound vs One time events in a timeline
I'm working on a 'Timeline' component, where there are two kind of events that need to be represented:
Time-bound events: An event that has a fixed start and end time
(for example a meeting)
One ...
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How to display data with variation to unsophisticated users?
In my application, students are grouped into classes and each student has a performance metric. I want to be able to show teachers and principals a list of classes, along with an aggregate performance ...
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What type of graph is this?
What is this type of graph called? I find this graph across some website but I am unable to recall.
Following are the features of this graph:
Nodes are connected to a central node, indicating layers ...
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How to display 'Mistake Contribution %' in a column out of total mistakes?
There are a total number of mistakes X, now I want to create a column for showing distribution for the total mistakes X, what will be the shorter name or better way to represent this?
Note: Total ...
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How to visualize complex data on the same bar chart for short and wide timelines
I'm designing a dashboard that visualises AWS cost details on a bar graph. Below is a weekly view and all seems fine.
However there's also a need to show the data across a boarder timeline, like ...
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What is the name for a plot that shows data at each X,Y coordinate
I'm creating some new plotting infrastructure and I can't figure out what this type of plot should be called.
It's a pretty basic plot where you have an Cartesian X-Y grid and each grid cell ...
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Guidelines for creating connections between different areas of a UI
Previous discussion What's an intuitive interface for making connections between UI elements?
We have a web application called a genome browser, and we want to draw connections between different ...
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Data leveling UI suggestions
I m here looking for suggestions and design idea if someone can help please, Basically i m working on a screen that should display a lot of data defined by levels. Lets say we have a City with its ...
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How to visualize "deviation"? [closed]
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I want to visualize a value that indicates the amount of deviation a certain resource's value is from its default value. In this specific case, a higher deviation is bad and a low one is good....
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How can I show that something is necessary, but can be done in any order?
I'm trying to model the rules of a rather complex game into a flowchart, so that newer players have an easier time understanding what to do when. The rules say that within your turn, you have to do ...
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Display hierarchical dataset in a digestible format
I have a dataset that uses has the hierarchy and breakdown of categories, sub-categories, and labels that each have a value:
Category 1:
Sub-Category 1:
Label 1: 4
Label 2: 3
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Customer journey with multiple users
I'm looking if there are any examples of this as I want to draw a customer journey for a 2 sided marketplace where there's overlap between these 2 types of users. Think host/traveler for airbnb or ...
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How to simplify a bar chart with many variables?
I'm a bit stuck here. I need to represent about 40 variables in a bar chart. Each variable needs to be visible... it would be fine if each ended on a different part of the x axis, but unfortunately ~...
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3d movement visualizations?
What are effective ways, expected norms and prior art for visually presenting movement in 3d space, or very generalized movement in 3-dimensions x/y/z axis from an accelerometer? I'm beginning to ...
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How to design a chart that has an x-axis with a fixed range that is longer than the selected range?
I'm designing a web-based analytics dashboard that contains a chart in which the x-axis represents the days of a campaign, and it always shows 31 days. However, the duration of a campaign varies; it ...
