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A repository to house research and web development for the Lega Toscana project, led by professor Lina Insana (Spring 2018) and professor Lorraine Denman (Fall 2018), and with consultation from members of the DH Advanced Praxis group at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.
http://toscana.newtfire.org
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Order of persons in heatmap #28

Closed djbpitt closed 6 years ago

djbpitt commented 6 years ago

@zme1 The persons in the heatmap (in the heatmap branch) are currently ordered alphabetically. That’s convenient for looking up a particular person (or, at least, it will be once the axes have been labeled), but it isn’t a natural or intrinsic order the way the order of dates is. Would it be more insightful to order the persons from most engaged (greatest total number of committees over the duration of the logs) to least?

zme1 commented 6 years ago

@djbpitt That may be a decision we make once the map is closer to its full size. As of now, ranking the members by activity would help improve the map's legibility, but the issue of parsing the data by member may become easier once the map's size is increased. I do suspect, though, that in either case ranking by activity would highlight individual member activity.