User talk:Yurik/US Politics Real Time

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Very nice graphs! Lego has been working on adding similar functionality to the info action. I love that people are focusing on making the projects more interactive and overall better. This is great. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 05:39, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm only worried that the tech has to scale - these graphs could have been created by anyone in the community - now that we have graphs and the api. With the info screen, it is much harder for non-devs to participate. But that page looks awesome, well done Lego! --Yurik (talk) 05:44, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Neat!

Suggestions:

1. Use a logarithmic scale instead of a linear scale.
2. Put them all on the same graph.

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by EdSaperia (talk)

EdSaperia, thanks, I switched to log scale. I might make it into one graph a bit later - that involves creating a new totally new graph. Thanks for your suggestions! --Yurik (talk) 12:29, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Neat indeed! Ideally people could switch easily between linear and log scale (maybe with two vertical tabs ?). In my experience many people get confused by log scales, and don't know how to read those. For those people it now seems as if all candidates have roughly same amount of views. I'd go for linear as default. Soon as this page gets picked up by mainstream media, a caveat could be useful that view counts do not imply popularity, but rather a mix of popularity and familiarity. Very popular candidates could generate few views because most people already know about the candidate. Erik Zachte (talk) 23:09, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Agreed, log scale here doesn't make sense. It makes sense when trying to compare the general shape of something vs. the general shape of something else. In this case we're talking about comparing absolute values to each other, and shape doesn't really carry too much meaning beyond just finding the highs and lows. I wonder if we can use vega-params to switch scales... Milimetric (talk) 15:47, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Interesting

I just did a quick little experiment with this page (I used show preview only) where I changed the parameter of one of the graphs. I changed Hillary Clinton to Democratic socialism and noticed there is a similar pattern of peaks and valleys to the Bernie Sanders graph. I wonder if there is any way to identify what else is being looked up in relation to the candidates? Koala Tea Of Mercy (talk) 15:27, 18 February 2016 (UTC)