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It took me longer than it should have to find the course I am interested in within the cloud of courses, maybe there's an easier way of doing this? Another pro

by rossj 16y ago

It took me longer than it should have to find the course I am interested in within the cloud of courses, maybe there's an easier way of doing this? Another problem is that if I pick a course and then have to pick a University it is going to be a long time before I find one with the UCAS score I want, or a certain drop-out rate so I wonder whether a table based view of the universities (once I've chosen a course) might allow me to sort by the fields I am interested in and then click on the interesting University. Great idea though :)

liquimoon 16y ago
List the courses in alphabetical order. Use something similar to http://travid.info/discounts http://travid.info/discounts (on the right hand side).
ig1 16y ago
Making an easy way to pick a course is a tricky problem, one of the things I wanted to do is make it very intuitive and easy to explore but I couldn't find any better way of doing that than a cloud. The alternatives I thought about were using a drop-down or a search box with auto-complete, neither of which seemed better. Letting users search/sort by fields definitely makes sense though. I'll add it to my todo list.
nicko 16y ago
I'll second the need to rank Universities based upon a course. As a non UK resident I have only heard of a handful of the universities. I'm sure there are some lesser known Universities with great departments, try not to make me click on every university to find them... After some further investigation I see you've implemented a decent attempt at solving this problem with the 'similar universities' table (However there is a built in assumption that i can find a university at my academic level. Also as an aside, check your algorithm, Oxford Computer Science is similar to Cambridge CS but not vice versa). The analytical side of me would still strongly prefer all universities for the selected course ranked in a table, especially if I can reorder the table by metrics as rossj suggests.

by rossj 16y ago

liquimoon 16y ago

List the courses in alphabetical order. Use something similar to http://travid.info/discounts http://travid.info/discounts (on the right hand side).

ig1 16y ago

Making an easy way to pick a course is a tricky problem, one of the things I wanted to do is make it very intuitive and easy to explore but I couldn't find any better way of doing that than a cloud. The alternatives I thought about were using a drop-down or a search box with auto-complete, neither of which seemed better. Letting users search/sort by fields definitely makes sense though. I'll add it to my todo list.

nicko 16y ago

I'll second the need to rank Universities based upon a course. As a non UK resident I have only heard of a handful of the universities. I'm sure there are some lesser known Universities with great departments, try not to make me click on every university to find them... After some further investigation I see you've implemented a decent attempt at solving this problem with the 'similar universities' table (However there is a built in assumption that i can find a university at my academic level. Also as an aside, check your algorithm, Oxford Computer Science is similar to Cambridge CS but not vice versa). The analytical side of me would still strongly prefer all universities for the selected course ranked in a table, especially if I can reorder the table by metrics as rossj suggests.