On 5/28/2010 9:31 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
: Perhaps you could show the 'nr of items left' as a tooltip of sorts when the
: user actually drags the slider.
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.
it wsa a little more complicated then anything we needed -- and seemed
like a real pain in hte ass to implement. i still don't know of anyone
doing anything like that, but it's definitley an interesting idea.
The hard part is really just deciding what "quantum" interval you want
to use along the xaxis to decide how to count the docs for the y axis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR
-Hoss
I love the idea of a sparkline at range-sliders. I think if I have time,
I might add them to the range sliders on our site. I already have all
the data since I show the count for a range while the user is dragging
by storing the facet counts for each interval in javascript.
