UI: spatially binned heatmap for messages too

[zachmullen]

We have it for taxis currently, but not for messages.

[jamiesnape]

This was requested to me too. People wanted to know the density of message activity.

[jamiesnape]

(though they did not always understand the term "binned heatmap")

[manthey]

@zachmullen suggested just calling it a heatmap without the word binned (I
think -- Zach, feel free to correct me). Any other thoughts on how to word
this more clearly?

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(though they did not always understand the term "binned heatmap")

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[jamiesnape]

I was thinking that too. The UI element with number of bins should only activated be activated when heat map is selected to maintain the associate with the heat map. That UI element should always have a value in it so people know what the default is. Also, I would suggest "heat map" rather than "heatmap".

[zachmullen]

Again we have an issue where I think we need to disambiguate (in the display options) what data set we are working on, especially if both datasets can be viewed as heatmaps, which we obviously don't want to do simultaneously. Just like with the filtering, I think we may need separate display options UIs for taxi vs. message data.

[manthey]

I updated the app so that the number of bins is a slider, and you no longer
need to every select update bins.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Jamie Snape [email protected]
wrote:

I was thinking that too. The UI element with number of bins should only
activated be activated when heat map is selected to maintain the associate
with the heat map. That UI element should always have a value in it so
people know what the default is. Also, I would suggest "heat map" rather
than "heatmap".

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[jamiesnape]

That is good. Is the slider enabled when heat map is not selected?

[manthey]

No. If you are on the VPN, you can see the change on the XDATA instance.

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That is good. Is the slider enabled when heat map is not selected?

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[jamiesnape]

Will check it out.

[jamiesnape]

Two users asked specifically for a heat map of the messages. Knowing the density of messages was an important use case for them.