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sfsinger19103 / election_anomaly

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List picking needs better approach #46

Open ericmtsai opened 4 years ago

ericmtsai commented 4 years ago

Need better message to user before she is asked to pick from a long list (e.g., ReportingUnit). User may not know that better option (pick by RUType) is on the way Specify the ReportingUnit for this _datafile Pick the ReportingUnit record from the database: Name ReportingUnitType_Id \ 0 North Carolina;Alamance County;ABSENTEE 15
1 North Carolina;Alamance County;ONE STOP 1 15
2 North Carolina;Alamance County;ONE STOP 2 15
3 North Carolina;Alamance County;ONE STOP 3 15
4 North Carolina;Alamance County;PROVISIONAL 15
... ... ...
3697 North Carolina;US Congress House of Representa... 7
3698 North Carolina;US Congress House of Representa... 7
3699 North Carolina;US Congress House of Representa... 7
3700 North Carolina;Judicial District 22B 12
3701 none or unknown 29
OtherReportingUnitType ReportingUnitType
0 precinct
1 precinct
2 precinct
3 precinct
4 precinct
... ... ...
3697 congressional
3698 congressional
3699 congressional
3700 judicial
3701 none or unknown other
[3702 rows x 4 columns] Enter the number of the desired ReportingUnit (or nothing, if your choice is not on the list):

ericmtsai commented 4 years ago

I don't believe this is used as part of any user flow in the DataLoader object, so it may be able to be removed from the beta release milestone. However, note that the inclusion of the DataLoader.display_options() function may give the user a better way to parse through a large number of options.

sfsinger19103 commented 4 years ago

Sounds reasonable.