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
