On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Lukáš Vlček <lukas.vl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org > > wrote: > >> >> : > Years ago, when we were first working on building Solr, a coworker of >> mind >> : > suggested using double bar sliders (ie: pick a range using a min and a >> : > max) for all numeric facets and putting "sparklines" above them to >> give >> : > the user a visual indication of the "spread" of documents across the >> : > numeric spectrum. >> ... >> : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline >> : > http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR >> >> >> : kayak.com uses a double slider to handle the flight departure range: >> : http://screencast.com/t/ZjExMTE5 >> >> Well, sure ... double bar sliders aren't relaly novel at all -- my point >> was the idea of putting a sparkline above hte slider, so people had a >> visual indicator of how many results they would get by adjusting the bars >> to various poits, before they ever even touched it (as opposed to a >> tooltip) >> >> >> -Hoss >> >> > Hoss, > > you mean something like the following? > http://hledani.rozhlas.cz/?query=jazz&back=&defaultNavigation=&; > > (Sorry, it is in Czech language but the web ui is pretty straightforward) > > Regards, > Lukas > Also http://markmail.org has some nice chart
