Excellent comments Hjalmar! It would be really useful if you could post them on the blog so all ideas are in one place!
http://blog.okfn.org/2009/11/11/alpha-release-of-where-does-my-money-go-prototype/ Best wishes, Jonathan On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Hjalmar Gislason <[email protected]> wrote: >> We're pleased to announce the alpha release of the 'Where Does My >> Money Go?' prototype: >> >> http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/wdmmg-alpha/ > > This looks great, especially for a prototype. > > A couple of quick comments: > * One immediately misses more data to be able to dig deeper and explore more > * I'm not thrilled with the "pie charts on regions" map, and actually > think that you'll find such visualizations used as examples of bad > infographic design in a lot of literature, even works of some of the > new advisors :) > * As a user, once I've found something of interest I'd like to be able > to export the raw data somehow to use in Excel, SPSS, for importing > into a database, etc. > * There are a lot of opportunities to add tooltips with additional > information (such as amounts, etc.) on mouse over. > > Hope this is of help, and that you don't get me wrong - this is a great start! > > Best, > Hjalmar Gislason > www.datamarket.net > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
