Explain monthly vs annual discrepancies

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A set of React components powering a web app for exploring centralized, standardized metrics on the performance of justice systems across the United States

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Explain monthly vs annual discrepancies #127

Closed hobuobi closed 3 years ago

hobuobi commented 3 years ago

Currently, we have a "Data Aggregation Range" control that allows the user to switch between monthly and annualized metrics.

Because of the methodology that we calculate the metrics that populate the page, we occasionally run into cases where a metric that we would expect to show up in the annual view (as an aggregation of monthly counts or otherwise) does not actually show up.

The initial solution is to simply include language in the description of the Data Aggregation Range control ("Use the control below to...") to make sure that users understand why some metrics might not show up.

@colincadams to provide more context (and possibly draft up the language, since he knows the cases and methodology best). Please comment to this thread!
@jessex or @hobuobi to implement (should be a simple text change).

As a follow-up, we might want to revisit the methodology used to avoid these confusions altogether.

jessex commented 3 years ago

I'm happy to make the text change once I've got the text from @colincadams!

hobuobi commented 3 years ago

Bump on @colincadams to pose some draft text!

colincadams commented 3 years ago

Added some draft text to this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ohrCBZY7Alkwf4WKihIyrX-cRgkMv8IAL8TDKeA6JhI/edit?usp=sharing

This includes both (1) proposed copy changes to the switch itself and (2) longer methodology to be included elsewhere on the site (with the metric definitions, perhaps?)

jessex commented 3 years ago

@hobuobi can you comment here when the copy in Colin's doc has been approved? And also where it has been decided that longer methodology text should be incorporated?

jessex commented 3 years ago

Any update, @hobuobi?

hobuobi commented 3 years ago

Still pending CSG review. However, I think we might end up moving this to a separate page on the Justice Counts website that doesn't need to be in our application, which would put the implementation burden on their webmaster. I'll try to confirm this today!

colincadams commented 3 years ago

Should we change this to just cover the text change to the switch included in the doc?

colincadams commented 3 years ago

I updated the switch text with what was in the doc. The rest of the copy will go in a separate page to be implemented by CSG.

If CSG has copy edits for the switch text, we can make those changes as part of a separate ticket filed for their edits.