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Deprecated version of Voyager 2 (in Angular), please use https://github.com/vega/voyager.
https://vega.github.io/voyager2/
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Always sort nominal fields by count by default in related views (reduce cognitive load & raise interest) #261

Closed light-and-salt closed 7 years ago

light-and-salt commented 8 years ago

A participant suggested this during user study

In general, people like to see trends

This may get them more initial interest in the dataset

Also lowers the cognitive load with related views. Participant used the word "overwhelming" multiple times today

Trend can be perceived pre-attentively. A list of names sorted alphabetically is probably not pre-attentive.

light-and-salt commented 8 years ago

Another note on cognitive load:

One participant mentioned that he prefers tabs better than scroll for related views. Scrolling a long list of visually similar graphs may be too overwhelming. Tabs help them process the related views by sub-clusters. So this participant thinks tabs are better.

kanitw commented 7 years ago

@ZeningQu

Always sort nominal fields by count by default

If a selected field is nominal, and the related views with Q added re-orders the axis differently based on the Q values, I figure that would be inconsistent and hard to compare.

Thus, it's not really clear if this is what users always want.