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Comments on the data visualization/interface: 1. Differentiate netflix/itunes by color or marker. 2. Find a better way to show density. Messing with the opaci

Comments on the data visualization/interface: 1. Differentiate netflix/itunes by color or marker. 2. Find a better way to show density. Messing with the opacity would help, as would contrasting colors. Nothing fancy like 3D, just a way to convey the density of points. 3. K nearest neighbours is counter intuitive at first. A better layout/ui could have been that when you hover over a point, it shows up to the right as one big poster, without any neighbours. You have good data that is trapped in that scatter plot.

zackzackzack 14y ago
Ahh the data points aren't disjoint sets with respect to netflix/itunes. Interesting.
- zackzackzack 14y ago
  Rolling with the whole talking to myself thing, I went investigating and implemented some of the suggestions with d3 and pilfered assets: http://cold-mountain-3633.herokuapp.com/ http://cold-mountain-3633.herokuapp.com/ (tested only in chrome) 1. Does "hover and update only one poster at a time" right. If goodfli.ms had built there website as something that communicated via json instead of HTML, I would have rolled this sort of page into the graphic as well: http://goodfil.ms/film/89441-cars-2 http://goodfil.ms/film/89441-cars-2 2. Attempted to make a visual difference between netflix and itunes. I couldn't figure out how they determined whether something was in itunes, so the colors are more of a proof of concept than anything meaningful. 3. Rolled out a trick using fisheye distortion to allow people to explore density spatially via their mouse. To learn how it was done, think about how this works: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/fisheye/ http://bost.ocks.org/mike/fisheye/ Overall, this is quick, dirty and probably missing the point of the original graphic. Self serving plug: if you, fair reader, have data you want to be smeared in d3.js lipstick, I do requests: https://www.odesk.com/users/~~80bea7ba2750c34b https://www.odesk.com/users/~~80bea7ba2750c34b

zackzackzack 14y ago

Ahh the data points aren't disjoint sets with respect to netflix/itunes. Interesting.

zackzackzack 14y ago
Rolling with the whole talking to myself thing, I went investigating and implemented some of the suggestions with d3 and pilfered assets: http://cold-mountain-3633.herokuapp.com/ http://cold-mountain-3633.herokuapp.com/ (tested only in chrome) 1. Does "hover and update only one poster at a time" right. If goodfli.ms had built there website as something that communicated via json instead of HTML, I would have rolled this sort of page into the graphic as well: http://goodfil.ms/film/89441-cars-2 http://goodfil.ms/film/89441-cars-2 2. Attempted to make a visual difference between netflix and itunes. I couldn't figure out how they determined whether something was in itunes, so the colors are more of a proof of concept than anything meaningful. 3. Rolled out a trick using fisheye distortion to allow people to explore density spatially via their mouse. To learn how it was done, think about how this works: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/fisheye/ http://bost.ocks.org/mike/fisheye/ Overall, this is quick, dirty and probably missing the point of the original graphic. Self serving plug: if you, fair reader, have data you want to be smeared in d3.js lipstick, I do requests: https://www.odesk.com/users/~~80bea7ba2750c34b https://www.odesk.com/users/~~80bea7ba2750c34b