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Re: Show HN: govuptime.com

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Post by benatkin »

bbarn wrote: post #11
arscan wrote: post #7

Ah, that chart on the bottom is on a log scale. I wasn't expecting that... and if I didn't look closer I would have completely misinterpreted it (for example, it appears that the DoD is mostly shut down).

It took me a sec too. It's a confusing application, since the intent is to compare to adjacent rows.. the first one for example is "half furloughed" but only a slightly smaller red line. Visually confusing.

I like it. You need only look at a few log charts to get the hang of it, and if it wasn't a log chart, it would be hard to see the difference between organizations with less than 20,000 employees, because the bars would all be very short.

Edit: took another look, and it is quite a bit more confusing than I thought, because of furloughed vs total employees. I can't quickly tell if the furloughed for an agency is linear based on the percentage of the total employees for that agency, or is also logarithmic.

Re: Show HN: govuptime.com

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Post by thatrailsguy »

dandelany wrote: post #15

Nice dashboard :) Out of curiosity, where did you get the data re: who is furloughed from which departments? I have been working on a similar data graphic but had to collect that data in a Google Doc by hand with a couple colleagues from the OMB's list of contingency plans. I'd be curious to compare my data with yours. FWIW I'm working on visualizing it with a treemap instead of bar charts - my progress is here but s…

I've got to ask one of the other guys where he got the data. It's available via json in our project here: https://github.com/dvito/govuptime

Re: Show HN: govuptime.com

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Post by thatrailsguy »

Fuzzwah wrote: post #4

I chuckled at the "A SysAdmin would be pissed." line and then checked the source to see if there was any javascript which was going to change this line as the uptime % dropped lower and lower. I was disappointed there wasn't, but perhaps it is some dynamic magic that happens on page load or something....

That's a great idea.

Re: Show HN: govuptime.com

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Post by thatrailsguy »

m_ram wrote: post #14
Fuzzwah wrote: post #12

Feature request: hover pop ups explaining what each of the acronyms mean.

This is exactly what I was going to recommend. Maybe a sentence or two describing what the department does as well. I'm sure most non-Americans (and even most Americans) don't know what the DOI does, for example.

I'll look into this.
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