I'm interested in this stuff, but what is a 'sparkline', and can I get a URL of an example?
Dennis Gearon Signature Warning ---------------- EARTH has a Right To Life, otherwise we all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Fri, 5/28/10, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > From: Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> > Subject: Re: Sites with Innovative Presentation of Tags and Facets > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Friday, May 28, 2010, 3:34 PM > > : > you mean something like the following? > : > http://hledani.rozhlas.cz/?query=jazz&back=&defaultNavigation=&; > > : Also http://markmail.org has some nice chart > > Yeah ... those are close to what i mean -- but in both > cases there is > really one big visual graph of a single numeric value > (ironicly it's a > timeline in both cases) ... i was thinking more along the > lines of when a > facet UI has *multiple* numeric facets. > > Imagine if a site like kayak.com for example, that has a > search UI with 7 > numeric sliders (departure take off time, departure landing > time, return > take off time, return landing time, layover duration, trip > duration, and > price) showed you a small sparkline above each slider that > showed you > where the various options tended to cluster based on the > other filters you > had applied -- so you can see that most flights have > layovers in the ~30 > minute range, and the key price point is around $99 ... but > when you move > the "take off time" slider to early in the morning the > sparkline above > layover duration shifts up to longer layovers, and the > prices start > tnreding up. > > > -Hoss > >
