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I had found the data in your other tabs. Sparklines aren't necessarily reserved to summaries; I didn't mean to give that impression. As an alternative to gauge

by caw 15y ago

I had found the data in your other tabs. Sparklines aren't necessarily reserved to summaries; I didn't mean to give that impression. As an alternative to gauges, you could try a single horizontal bar, with background coloring for what you have as red, yellow, and green (picture a sparkline but as a bar). It shows the same information in less space and lets you show other related data to the side. But as I said, if it sells disregard everything I've said. There's a discrepancy between the people who buy this stuff and the people who use it, and obviously you're trying to pitch to the guy with the money. People like pie graphs for instance. You probably shouldn't ditch the pie, even though a 4x2 table would show the same data. Clustered bar graphs are generally an alternative to bubble charts, but it depends what you're representing whether that works or if you should split the data into multiple graphs. I have to ask what that graph is really showing. Do I read it from the center of the dot? 'Nodejscommunity' is more specialized and more influencing than 'ryah' by that interpretation. Or should 'nodejscommunity' be more influencing because it has more followers? Another question to ponder is whether the executive summary is a summary or dashboard. At my company the definition of a dashboard is something that doesn't scroll. So for whatever resolution you design for the data should fit on one page without scrolling. That would allow for someone to quickly open the page and make inferences about your data. A summary of course contains more information, but still at a high level. Found an example for a dashboard: http://media.juiceanalytics.com/images/BonaVista_dashboard.png http://media.juiceanalytics.com/images/BonaVista_dashboard.p... It even includes the horizontal bar I'm referring to.

danmaz74 15y ago
As this is in beta, if it sells or not is something I still don't know - so first I'll see how it goes with these kinds of graphs, but hearing more ideas is very useful to be able to do variations and see if and how they matter. For now my main concern is bugfixing and preparing to be able to sell, but then I'll work again on the refinement of the product itself. In my summary I made the intentional choice of showing only the essential info. I hope to find out soon enough if that is exactly the information that my target is most interested in - my prospective customer likes it. But that's just one. As for it being a dashboard or not, with content that is all above the fold... I could make the page liquid by adapting the size of the gauges and pie charts to your resolution, or just reduce their default sizes some to have everything above the fold with most resolutions. I'll consider that. For the influence graph: Yes, the position on the axes is that of the center of the dot, so ryah in the diagram is less influential than nodejscommunity even having almost 10 times its followers. How is that? I don't calculate influence only based on your followers, but also on how much you tweet (in general and on the specific subject), how much you're retweeted or cited... that's why it's interesting to see more dimensions in that graph. The dimensions aren't independant from one another, and from that graph you can get a very good idea not just about how influential a user is, but also why/how. But you made me realize that I need to explain that graph even better. I'll try to address this in my next iteration ;) EDIT PS: I'll also add that the horizontal bars you linked are a good alternative especially if you have a target to reach. With negative/positive numbers and no target, I should try them to see how they work.

by caw 15y ago

danmaz74 15y ago

As this is in beta, if it sells or not is something I still don't know - so first I'll see how it goes with these kinds of graphs, but hearing more ideas is very useful to be able to do variations and see if and how they matter. For now my main concern is bugfixing and preparing to be able to sell, but then I'll work again on the refinement of the product itself. In my summary I made the intentional choice of showing only the essential info. I hope to find out soon enough if that is exactly the information that my target is most interested in - my prospective customer likes it. But that's just one. As for it being a dashboard or not, with content that is all above the fold... I could make the page liquid by adapting the size of the gauges and pie charts to your resolution, or just reduce their default sizes some to have everything above the fold with most resolutions. I'll consider that. For the influence graph: Yes, the position on the axes is that of the center of the dot, so ryah in the diagram is less influential than nodejscommunity even having almost 10 times its followers. How is that? I don't calculate influence only based on your followers, but also on how much you tweet (in general and on the specific subject), how much you're retweeted or cited... that's why it's interesting to see more dimensions in that graph. The dimensions aren't independant from one another, and from that graph you can get a very good idea not just about how influential a user is, but also why/how. But you made me realize that I need to explain that graph even better. I'll try to address this in my next iteration ;) EDIT PS: I'll also add that the horizontal bars you linked are a good alternative especially if you have a target to reach. With negative/positive numbers and no target, I should try them to see how they work.