GitHub user kayousterhout opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1314
[SPARK-2384] Add tooltips to UI.
This patch adds tooltips to clarify some points of confusion in the UI.
When users mouse over some of the table headers (shuffle read, write, and input
size) as well as over the "scheduler delay" metric shown for each stage, a
black tool tip (see image below) pops up describing the metric in more detail.
After the tooltip mechanism is added by this commit, I imagine others may want
to add more tooltips for other things in the UI, but I think this is a good
starting point.

This looks scary-big but much of it is adding the bootstrap tool tip
JavaScript.
Also I have no idea what to put for the license in tooltip (I left it the
same -- the Twitter apache header) or for JQuery (left it as nothing) --
@mateiz what's the right thing here?
cc @pwendell @andrewor14 @rxin
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/kayousterhout/spark-1 tooltips
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1314.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #1314
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commit 77524490754c47f3e78904087cd582741419abe5
Author: Kay Ousterhout <[email protected]>
Date: 2014-07-07T05:59:18Z
[SPARK-2384] Add tooltips to UI.
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