Use punchcard instead of series with activity graphs

[daviddavo]

Current display

Desired display

Or something like GitHub

Subtasks:

• [x] Display a calplot
• [x] Specify a starting date, and diferenciate between no activity because the DAO didn't exist yet, and no activity because nobody did nothing
• [x] Create "activity plot" with sum of activities
• [x] Hide "days with activity" plot in one DAO view
• [x] Propagate changes to aragon
• [x] Propagate changes to daostack
• [x] Put a disclaimer explain what is activity (new proposals, votes and stakes)
• [x] Merge upstream with changes grasia/plotly-calplot#1
• [ ] Merge into upstream brunorosilva/plotly-calplot#7

[javiag]

If we are going to use this kind of display, we could use the number of actions peformed during each month (according to our definition of action).

Since we already have a time series that shows the number of active users, we should move it under the heading "Activity".

[daviddavo]

These kinds of graphs are also called "calendar heatmap".

I found a recently created library that creates a custom dash component

https://github.com/brunorosilva/plotly-calplot

In our case, instead of having 52 weeks of 7 days to make a year, we would have 12 months on the horizontal axis, and then the years on the vertical.

[javiag]

It makes sense!

The color dependent on the number of actions, right?

Is the plot interactive? I mean, does it show the number associated to each cell "on hover" or "on mouse over"? If so, it would be great?

[daviddavo]

@javiag Should we keep the calendar plot also on All DAOs view? Or only when a DAO is selected?

Here's a DAO with one (dark) or zero (gray) activity. Months before creation or after today appear transparent (white)

[javiag]

If we show the plot in the "All DAOs" view, we should change the plot title: "Number of DAOs active", because I assume that the color "saturation" is related to the number of DAOs.

Regarding the "DAO view" I like more the "three colors". If possible, I'd like to play again with the saturation to denote the number of actions in the DAO (the more actions, the more saturated the color).

[daviddavo]

the more actions, the more saturated the color

Currently, it displays just the "Months which the DAO has registered activity". If you select just one DAO, the "heatmap" will be either 1 or 0, that's why there is no saturation change.

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To display the general activity of the DAO, we would have to create a new plot, perhaps called "activity of the DAOs" which, on all DAOs view, displays the sum of activities of all DAOs, but with a DAO selected displays the quantity of activities of that DAO per month.

To avoid having two plots with kind of similar information, we could display the "Number of DAOs active" plot only on "All DAOs view", and display the "activity of the DAO" if a DAO is selected. Or we could ditch the "Number of DAOs active" graph and keep only the activity of the DAOs plot (but one DAO with a lot of activity could skew the graph). What do you think, @javiag ?

[javiag]

Well, I like the "two plots" being the "Number of DAOs active" plot only on "All DAOs, because it is interesting to show the popularity of an ecosystem...

The other plot should show "Activity of the DAO" as the summation of DAO actions each month.

[daviddavo]

The new plot provides useful insights

[javiag]

You show the left plot for comparison purposes, right? In the "DAO view" there is no need for such a plot.

Other than that, it looks great! :)

[daviddavo]

Yes, I'm currently modifying the backend to be able to hide it when only a DAO is selected

[javiag]

Ah, you are right, the plots shown in both "modes" were exactly the same.

I hope it does not take you much time to solve it.

[daviddavo]

I also added a small disclaimer explaining what is activity: new proposals, votes and stakes (according to An overview of decentralized autonomous organizations on the blockchain).

[javiag]

Great, but take into account that stakes only take place in DAOstack...

[daviddavo]

Yes, every platform has its own definition of Activity