I liked the idea. It could have been more interactive, may be using Flex charts or any thing else for that matter to give cool effects like... umm wait.. what are the units on the Axes ? Give a number on the bar when the user hovers the mouse over them.. Its nice work for a 24Hr time line though...
When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
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Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
#22I like your idea but what are you going to do when a lot of people start visiting on the least busy days turning them into busy days? I know from personal experience that Wednesday afternoons between 1-4pm are usually the quietest times in movie theatres and other venues that tend to be packed on weekends so by putting this information in people's hands you're messing with my zen dude.
Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
The size of the columns already indicates that. I think varying the colors as well would be confusing.
Disagree. It's the whole point of the page, so it isn't excessively redundant if you say it more than one way... I'd just put a single column that's a different color (ie, green) for the best day, maybe with an embedded checkmark or some other indicator for the color blind. Google "comparison chart" and see how multiple" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://printgreener.com/... facets can inform…
I don't think the checkmark for colour blind is needed (the colours are supplementary, not essential).
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#24I did a very similar hack for local gyms, but I keep it granular down to the individual checkin so I can do rollups on each hour over the week.
Did you get many users? Still running it? Sounds interesting.
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#25Brilliant.
Another reason software is a bottomless pit of opportunity. There are so many things that can be optimized if only the data can be put into the right hands in a usable form such as you've done here.
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#26Could license use of the graphs/data (iframe?) to travel sites.
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#27Looks great, definitely a value-add yet very minimal. I sent my friends in London to it, could see it going a bit viral.
I found venue navigation very confusing. When clicking on the underlined 'tate modern' (top left) I expected to be given a choice of other venues. How do I see a list of venues? I can only discover them via the 'top lists' and 'Random'?
Well done.
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#28Good call on using foursquare to do the work. I'm not sure if you can use this source to include the best times of the year also, but this would be ideal. When people ask themselves (or others) "when should I visit?" they are often referring to "what time of the year should I visit?"
For a 24 hour job, I'm wowed. I can see a lot of expansion potential, notably in adding location (by country, state, city) and categories (i.e. breaking it down by museums, theaters, parks, etc.).
Consider making the graphs into a widget for local tourist, hotel, and city pages.
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#29Sir John Soane's museum. Quietest on Monday, because it's closed on Monday :)
Spotted that immediately, but smart work anyway.
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#30Awesome :)