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click a interval and slide along the graph: reading based text visualization #126

Closed AbeHandler closed 8 years ago

AbeHandler commented 8 years ago

This will be really helpful. Click the grey box, color changes slightly and cursor is a "drag hand". Then you can slide it across the graph. This will allow you to read the stories across a 1 month interval. Combined w/ good snippets -- that is a really useful feature.

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AbeHandler commented 8 years ago

er... maybe this is called: "reading-focused visualization" .... or .... "layout-based text visualization" ?

basically: instead of trying to wrestle the text into some kind of picture (standard approach), the goal of the visualization is to arrange the text for reading.

AbeHandler commented 8 years ago

moving this to "research questions" because this idea of moving your mouse to summarize is neat and new and useful. The slider works in current versions of Rookie.

AbeHandler commented 8 years ago

Copied comment from #124 "gah! the sliders are unexpectedly awesome. you can slide the black rectangle and, as you are sliding it, read the top stories/snippets off the doclist (which updates based on the date range in the slider). so like: move the left rectangle to the right & the top story in the doclist updates. this allows you to read the evolving relationship between q, f and t through time as you slide the rectangle.

In more design terms... the slider allows for this ticker tape effect from the doclist. the time bins (which I guess you could say afford discrete clicking but not continuous scrolling) don't do this."

So it is visualization mixed w/ reading. magazine layout people have known how to do this for years.