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Add Glider Page #136

Closed kknee closed 10 years ago

kknee commented 10 years ago

This page will be linked from the homepage and will include the following:

  1. image of and link to existing glider asset map
  2. image of and link to catalog.ioos.us/maps with Glider_DAC loaded
  3. Visualization of agreed upon glider metrics
  4. Link to http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/glider/welcome.html ?

URL should be http://catalog.ioos.us/gliders

carmelortiz commented 10 years ago

@dpsnowden Do we want to display the current Glider Asset Map in Catalog version 3.2? Currently, this map is generated completely outside of the DAC and the sense is that once DAC 2.0 is up and running this asset map may be turned off. We could leave it out of 3.2, or put it in and remove it at the point when it is no longer being maintained.

dpsnowden commented 10 years ago

@beckybaltes, thoughts?

My thought is that 3.2 encompasses 2 views:

  1. catalog.ioos.us/map -> glider_DAC pulldown menu
  2. catalog.ioos.us/gliders which is as you describe above and may evolve over time. Let's keep it simple at first. i.e. while we eventually want to include some visualizations in the popup windows, we may not get to it in 3.2.

The current Glider Asset Map (http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/observing/observing_assets/glider_asset_map.html) is not included in 3.2. After 3.2 is released we should take a look at them side by side and determine what is transferable to the new architecture and what isn't. That should give us a pretty good notion of how much longer we want to maintain it.

BeckyBaltes commented 10 years ago

@carmelortiz I agree with Derrick. We talked about this after the call. I think we can leave the current Glider Asset Map out of 3.2 and assess down the road.

kknee commented 10 years ago

Sounds good, thanks for the feedback.

@BeckyBaltes any other links, photos, content that you would like integrated into catalog.ioos.us/gliders?

BeckyBaltes commented 10 years ago

@kknee I was not able to look at catalog.ioos.us/gliders. Is it just on development server right now? I don't think there is anything to add right now, but if there is a way for me to see it, I can look closer.

kknee commented 10 years ago

@BeckyBaltes yes, this page is in development, but the draft list of content is at the top of this issue

BeckyBaltes commented 10 years ago

@kknee, We could also include a link to the Glider Network White Paper, http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/glider/strategy/natl_glider_ntwrk_plan_final.pdf

lukecampbell commented 10 years ago

So, I came up with something like this to visualize the glider metrics for the number of deployments, but it doesn't feel like the right visualization approach. screen shot 2014-09-18 at 4 47 03 pm

carmelortiz commented 10 years ago

I think the Glider metrics issue is #53. In any case, I think the goal is to highlight that the # of glider day is increasing each year. This looks like we're decreasing.

BeckyBaltes commented 10 years ago

I agree with Carmel that we want to show progress and this looks like the days are decreasing. I don't know that the metrics need to be seen in graph form and they can't just be numbers, but maybe visualizations are always more telling.

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I think the Glider metrics issue is #53 https://github.com/ioos/catalog/issues/53. In any case, I think the goal is to highlight that the # of glider day is increasing each year. This looks like we're decreasing.

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lukecampbell commented 10 years ago

I changed it and we went with an infographic.

The streamgraph would normally be a good approach for data that has a more uniform distribution but some of the RAs really dominate the distribution curve.

I think this feels much better. screen shot 2014-09-19 at 5 53 48 pm

dpsnowden commented 10 years ago

I like the idea and I see that you're trying to match the overall site color scheme, but I can't tell the difference between the curves. The colors are just too close together.

kknee commented 10 years ago

We'll work on switching up the colors to differentiate more, but the plot is actually interactive - e.g. mouse over the SECOORA text and the line gets highlighted, and vice-vesa. Helps a lot to see it live.

kknee commented 10 years ago

Couple of small edits to this page:

  1. Fix up infographic - condense x-axis to 2008 to 2013, change color scheme
  2. Edit thumbnail of glider network plan to match image on front page of plan
  3. Change "catalog glider asset map" to "catalog glider map"
kknee commented 10 years ago

Updated infographic:

2008-2012 Glider Days | Create Infographics
BeckyBaltes commented 10 years ago

I like that infographic color scheme much better and I think it works for now. I would be interested in adding the combined annual IOOS because that clearly has a upward trajectory every year, but the numbers will just squish everything else down to the bottom, which I don't want to do. Maybe we can keep thinking about other ways to show this down the line. Maybe we could try something like a histogram with x-axis as RAs and Y axis with time, so you can see the progression of the RAs independently and together.

benjwadams commented 10 years ago

Per @kknee, @BeckyBaltes -- https://github.com/ioos/catalog/pull/180 implements this colorscheme.

duncombe commented 10 years ago

Something I tried once with vertical profiles where a parameter had large changes over a small depth range near the surface and seasonal thermocline and then progressively smaller changes with increasing depth, was to plot it against a scaled depth. Attached are plots of temperature vs depth. One has depth scaled as the cube root to show more clearly the variability near the surface, which cannot be distinguished in the other with unscaled depth. You might think of something similar to bring the large values onto the same page as the smaller ones.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:17 PM, BeckyBaltes notifications@github.com wrote:

I like that infographic color scheme much better and I think it works for now. I would be interested in adding the combined annual IOOS because that clearly has a upward trajectory every year, but the numbers will just squish everything else down to the bottom, which I don't want to do. Maybe we can keep thinking about other ways to show this down the line. Maybe we could try something like a histogram with x-axis as RAs and Y axis with time, so you can see the progression of the RAs independently and together.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ioos/catalog/issues/136#issuecomment-57195310.

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