LiamOSullivan
commented
4 years ago See also https://boomtown-indicators.org/compare
RK: This project might of interest. I like the fact that you can select what is of interest OD: High Charts is looking good there. I dislike the radio buttons though. I'd have suggested preloading some data in the chart to provide context about what the problem space, options and interesting questions might be. Its not clear there is even going to be a chart until you scroll halfway down the page. Chart first, then interaction options. I also felt the text was too long. If the text was broken down and appeared contextually based on the options you pick that would be better...maybe provide the longform version as a secondary option. You really have to want to know about this subject to bother using this interface. This doesn't feel responsive enough for data exploration. If I'm honest, I wouldn't use this. Too much detail for a dashboard view. Not enough functionality and too poor usability for a tool. GY: Sure the UI is a bit uninspiring, but I think that the target user perhaps isn’t looking for bells and whistles in terms of UX or swish UI interactions. KIS interfaces serve some use cases quite well. I’d view something like this page in a “queries” type context, where the motivation to generate visualisations if more a product of an end user’s needs. Jane needs to create a chart for a report (primary end user), or a student writing a report for class (secondary end user), where they aren’t necessarily looking for or exploring interesting relationships, but come to the site having preformulated data questions that need to be reported back with a simple graph. Although, like some of the best real-time or tool based solutions out there, the UI and Usability is lacking somewhat!
Build a tool that facilitates building visualisations from the relevant Statbank datasets.
Note possible comparisons with
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/json-and-unicode-web-services/getting-started/query-builder
and
https://datausa.io/visualize?groups=0-TBhjH&measure=64auG