I am wondering if the data is changing so frequently, that the app would be in a constant state of being updated? What if they could select which type of criteria they wanted to be alerted to as to when it was updated? That would give them a more customized alert, which speaks to the original Alan concern of not bringing back too much data...could perhaps target which results get re-run.
-----Original Message----- From: sreeramen ramaswamy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:28 AM To: Jennifer R Vignone Cc: Alan Wexelblat; list IXDA Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Search against a large, rapidly changing data set? if you are looking at personalizing the search and pushing content to user then it would be additional help. they could be informed of new content being updated. may be widgetize the content. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Jennifer R Vignone <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you mean when you use the term "accurate" to describe the results? I > think I can see what you're getting at, but I would venture to say that any > result set that is a true reflection of the criteria entered is "accurate". > It is just that the data may have updated due to the rapidly changing > addition/subtractions/and so on. That wouldn't make the results incorrect, as > they were performed against the data available at that time. > > That being said, it seems that you want to timestamp the results from the > moment the user clicks "search" in order to give that results set a > definition against the changing data. From that point on, any further > filtering would be against that result set. If the user wanted to re-run it > against what is "current" (in other words, may have changed since the running > of the initial search) then the user could: > > -- re-run the search against the most recent data > --"refresh" the results against the most recent data > > I would allow the user to save: > > -- search criteria > -- any results set, which would automatically be dated (and that date perhaps > un-editable so it wasn't lost). You could open each new/updated search in a > new window or tab. > > If they were to refresh, you may want to highlight where data had changed > against the earlier result(s). It depends on what the users want, need, is > useful, have tolerance for (too much data isn't always a good thing). > > In regard to the size of the results set, you could, as part of the criteria, > ask the user to bring back results in order of the percentage of matching to > the criteria, or in chunks ("show me 25/50/75/ALL results at a time"). > > I hope this helps or furthers the ideas along. I love 'search-related' topics > Jennifer > ========================================================== > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan > Wexelblat > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:16 PM > To: list IXDA > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Search against a large, rapidly changing data set? > > I'm going to guess I'm delving into sufficiently esoteric areas that > nobody will have an answer, but we are smarter than me, so here goes: > > Best regards, > --Alan > > (*) There's a different problem here of people wanting to monitor the > changes, rather than perform static searches, but that's not what this > song is about. > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and > conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of > securities, accuracy and completeness of information, viruses, > confidentiality, legal privilege, and legal entity disclaimers, > available at http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures/email. > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of securities, accuracy and completeness of information, viruses, confidentiality, legal privilege, and legal entity disclaimers, available at http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures/email. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
