Feeback from clients

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Jorrit

• Flip: kind of funny
• Bipartite: selection workflow is kind of weird
  • not clear how to update after selecting from dropdowns
• I understand the intent but looks like the tool is still under development

  Marie

• like simplicity & visual aspect of card view
• not what i expected when you say a food web tool
  • expected messy knots of string where you can see from a diatom up to a fish, bigger fish etc.
• like functionality, very visual, very clean, nice snapshot
• have to provide context, esp. for high school students
  • better to provide a curated experience rather than an open, messy one
  • start with a well-chosen sample data set
• Network page:
  • likes card views etc on the left for context
  • the references:
  • not clear what the balloons are
  • what does 9 observations mean?
    ie. in that study? in that study by that source?
  • would like to see an explanation somewhere of what it means
  • e.g. click the balloons to go to a citation
  • like to have ability to dig into species to get more information
• Bipartite:
  • unclear what's going on
  • what's different about it?
  • why that visualization? seems a little more obscure
  • little circles on top and bottom not identified?
  • likes the way you can choose it based on the geographic box
  • needs more explanation re how to use it and what the potential is
• Overall:
  • demonstrating the value of it will make it more tangible
  • find a high school curriculum online to find something this tool could help with
  • evidence for the need for this tool
  • cleanup and simplify
  • documentation

    Jeff

• provide some organization to the result
  • complicated names
  • how do bony fishes relate to crustaceans etc.
  • would be nice to have a tree like structure available
    • maybe to start with
  • alphabetical would be nice if searching for something
• need a curricular use case: what are students trying to accomplish
• Arrows: ecologists prefer arrows follow flow of energy from resource to consumer
• Map page: nice to preserve the type & direction of the interaction
• Bipartite: ordering is useful but not clear here
• Overall:
  • focus on a specific educational goal & use case
  • likes when students can construct things
  • so e.g. building a food web: use tool to find the interactions
    • not necessarily building the food web in the tool
  • help with where there's good data coverage
  • focus on an activity students could do with 1 or 2 pieces of the tool
  • make sure labels, documentation, workflow are as straightforward as possible

    Jen

• some order would be helpful, but not convinced taxonomic order would be suitable
• would want things with most content, or at least an image, float to the top
• often Network link fails to find any interactions
  • will report case on github issues
  • seems to be blue wildebeest & mosquito
• Bipartite: the data is convoluted
  • needs lightweight documentation
  • a few hints, not full paragraphs
• get information wherever you can to pick a more specific use case
• beautiful presentation of the data that presents the complexity well
  • taking a slice of it would be a useful exercise
  • to appeal to educators