Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees
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Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees
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Re: Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees
#2A very unexpected, yet creative, use of D3 (d3js.org).
Re: Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees
#3I'd like to see this accessible on a mobile device, which it's not. It's regardless a unique and quick way to browse a deep set of comments.
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#4I can see this being useful as a visualization tool for social research. Would it be possible to link Traverse from voice recordings of conversations?
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#5I'd recommend click instead of hover, because now as I drill down into a comment, a tiny wrong movement can reset things.
Other than that: cool!
Re: Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees
#6Anyone tried columns for hierarchy instead? May be easier to traverse and understand.
Re: Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees
#7Anyone tried columns for hierarchy instead? May be easier to traverse and understand.
It's not quite the same as this visual with columns, but I built a tree-based conversation viewer for Twitter discussions that uses a top-down representation of the tree:
https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse/blob/master/README.md
The design used in OP is clever, I didn't think to try a radial tree.
Re: Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees
#8This is cool, I want this for hacker news discussions
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#9This is a cool idea. I'm not convinced that having all the comments in a sidebar with size constraints is going to be that useful, though. It might work better with traditional chained comments but having the radial diagram floating to one side.
Also it's easy to imagine posts starting out too small to click on and getting lost in the noise. (Not that this doesn't happen in other formats.)
Re: Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees
#10Took me a while to figure out how it was supposed to work, when you click something you can't drill down anymore, you have to hover to drill down.
Due to the tiny comment box, the lack of context and being unable to quickly scan the discussion it is a lot less intuitive than just having the tree-based comments. In a normal comment thread I can quickly scan the text, with this I have to hover over several very small targets to be able to read a tiny portion of each comment.
Not sure what problem this is trying to solve.