Present discussion threads as radial trees

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tool for collectively summarizing large discussions

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Present discussion threads as radial trees #100

Open elaragon opened 6 years ago

elaragon commented 6 years ago

Issue

As a developer who is going to collaborate in the improvement of WIKUM source code, I found that the tree visual representation of threads sometimes requires an important scrolling effort.

Proposal

To extend WIKUM to allow to present discussion threads as radial trees

Engagement

Please indicate support or opposition for this proposal using the +1 / -1 buttons or a comment. If opposing the proposal, please give clear justifications, and where possible, make an alternative proposals.

elaragon commented 6 years ago

This D3.js visualization is of great interest for this issue http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111116/force-collapsible.html

amyxzhang commented 6 years ago

@karger says: Do radial trees reduce the amount of scrolling required? With a large comment tree there's still no room to fit everything on the screen. What would be the interaction with the radial layout?

elaragon commented 6 years ago

Very good question. Although it is true that a large comment tree could not fit on the screen, this might be easily solved by zooming with the mouse wheel. For example, this is the exact same thread from Decide Madrid shown in:

This is a personal opinion but, in terms of visibility, I feel that web scrolling makes a very strong difference between info at the top and info at the bottom (which reminds me of class societies :sweat_smile: )