Dear Analytics team,
The general legibility of Charts in wikipedia are relatively poor. We can improve it with making them more interactive and dynamic. Please refer to the Chart in the attachment (Boloid Events.jpg).
The chart represents the distribution of Bolide events from 1994-2013 on the world map. The legend describe the magnitude of each event in Joules.
From the chart can you count the number of 10GJ Bolide events in Africa?
You can count, but we take an awfully long time to find the answer.
If we were to make the legend Interactive and the world map dynamic, we can improve legibility. We should making all the values (1 GJ, 10GJ etc) in the legend as clickable buttons. On clicking say 10kJ the World Map should show Boloid Events of 10GJ magnitude and remove the rest. This will make it easier to answer my earlier question.
Regards Dhaya
Dear Dhaya,
Thanks for your comments!
The general legibility of Charts in wikipedia are relatively poor.
We can improve it with making them more interactive and dynamic.
I agree with you that there is room for improvement when it comes to visualizations in Wikipedia. Actually, "Handling wiki content beyond plaintext" (which includes graphs) is one of the hot topics of the Mediawiki Developer Summit[1] in January 2017. Also, there's the awesome Graph Extension[2] that lets you add interactive dynamic visualizations to the wiki pages.
Cheers!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit [2 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph]
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:53 PM, dhayakar marur dm.marur@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Analytics team,
The general legibility of Charts in wikipedia are relatively poor. We can improve it with making them more interactive and dynamic. Please refer to the Chart in the attachment (Boloid Events.jpg).
The chart represents the distribution of Bolide events from 1994-2013 on the world map. The legend describe the magnitude of each event in Joules. From the chart can you count the number of 10GJ Bolide events in Africa? You can count, but we take an awfully long time to find the answer.
If we were to make the legend Interactive and the world map dynamic, we can improve legibility. We should making all the values (1 GJ, 10GJ etc) in the legend as clickable buttons. On clicking say 10kJ the World Map should show Boloid Events of 10GJ magnitude and remove the rest. This will make it easier to answer my earlier question.
Regards Dhaya
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
Also CC yurik, as he’s doing tons of awesome stuff with interactive maps these days.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns mforns@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Dhaya,
Thanks for your comments!
The general legibility of Charts in wikipedia are relatively poor.
We can improve it with making them more interactive and dynamic.
I agree with you that there is room for improvement when it comes to visualizations in Wikipedia. Actually, "Handling wiki content beyond plaintext" (which includes graphs) is one of the hot topics of the Mediawiki Developer Summit[1] in January 2017. Also, there's the awesome Graph Extension[2] that lets you add interactive dynamic visualizations to the wiki pages.
Cheers!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit [2 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph]
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:53 PM, dhayakar marur dm.marur@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Analytics team,
The general legibility of Charts in wikipedia are relatively poor. We can improve it with making them more interactive and dynamic. Please refer to the Chart in the attachment (Boloid Events.jpg).
The chart represents the distribution of Bolide events from 1994-2013 on the world map. The legend describe the magnitude of each event in Joules. From the chart can you count the number of 10GJ Bolide events in Africa? You can count, but we take an awfully long time to find the answer.
If we were to make the legend Interactive and the world map dynamic, we can improve legibility. We should making all the values (1 GJ, 10GJ etc) in the legend as clickable buttons. On clicking say 10kJ the World Map should show Boloid Events of 10GJ magnitude and remove the rest. This will make it easier to answer my earlier question.
Regards Dhaya
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
-- *Marcel Ruiz Forns* Analytics Developer Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi Dhaya,
Thanks for your interest in charts on Wikipedia. I am interested in this topic too. For future reference, I believe that this thread should be on the Multimedia mailing list instead of the Analytics mailing list. (: I'm copying this thread to that list because the thread is likely to be of interest to people there.
Have a look at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
Pine
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Andrew Otto otto@wikimedia.org wrote:
Also CC yurik, as he’s doing tons of awesome stuff with interactive maps these days.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns mforns@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Dhaya,
Thanks for your comments!
The general legibility of Charts in wikipedia are relatively poor.
We can improve it with making them more interactive and dynamic.
I agree with you that there is room for improvement when it comes to visualizations in Wikipedia. Actually, "Handling wiki content beyond plaintext" (which includes graphs) is one of the hot topics of the Mediawiki Developer Summit[1] in January 2017. Also, there's the awesome Graph Extension[2] that lets you add interactive dynamic visualizations to the wiki pages.
Cheers!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit [2 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph]
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:53 PM, dhayakar marur dm.marur@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Analytics team,
The general legibility of Charts in wikipedia are relatively poor. We can improve it with making them more interactive and dynamic. Please refer to the Chart in the attachment (Boloid Events.jpg).
The chart represents the distribution of Bolide events from 1994-2013 on the world map. The legend describe the magnitude of each event in Joules. From the chart can you count the number of 10GJ Bolide events in Africa? You can count, but we take an awfully long time to find the answer.
If we were to make the legend Interactive and the world map dynamic, we can improve legibility. We should making all the values (1 GJ, 10GJ etc) in the legend as clickable buttons. On clicking say 10kJ the World Map should show Boloid Events of 10GJ magnitude and remove the rest. This will make it easier to answer my earlier question.
Regards Dhaya
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
-- *Marcel Ruiz Forns* Analytics Developer Wikimedia Foundation
Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
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