On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info> wrote:

Le 2011-03-25 16:02, Ammar Yasir a écrit :

> Thanks for the comments. I'll try to include all possibilities (using
> existing pChart or SVG) in my proposal. One more question, it was required
> on our part to submit a patch before we submit our proposal.
> I submitted a patch for mass table prefix change (
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3220779&group_id=23067&atid=377410).
> Its for one of the 'Tasks for Junior developers' and its working fine (nijel
> verified that) but not accepted yet, so will it count or I'll have to do
> something more before I could submit?

I changed the resolution to "accepted" and you don't need to send
another patch before sending your project proposal.

Thanks

I had a doubt (it might be silly but I thought I should ask). One important feature of such a data visualization system is that it should not create confusion or represent something that the data is not. Consider the movie database example, when a user sees a plot of ratings vs year / genre vs lanuage, a lot of data points will overlap. So a lot of data will be hidden from the user at the first sight. What will a user make out of it? I know we handle such conditions by providing all the data instances when he clicks on the point but a user might not go that far. If he is not able to understand the initial plot he might not continue further ( like not zoom in/click data point). I am just a little concerned about the usability part and not the functionality.

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