Any reason why this couldn't be expanded to a vast range of places, seeing as it reads the same Foursquare API?
Yes, we need this for the DMV.
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?
#42It would be great to see some real numbers on these graphs as there is a danger that some days are being reported as really busy when the n is really low.
e.g. http://whenshouldivisit.iamdanw.com/venues/2661544
Is this just one person each day?
Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
#43A bit odd UI-wise that the largest column is the least desirable. At least that's assuming that you'll want to visit at quiet periods. If you expanded to include pubs and clubs, popularity might be more desirable. Perhaps change the graphs instead of being block colour to have a texture of little people - eg something like http://static2.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/9/8/7/large2/789645.... or http://www.vectorstock.com/c…
Glass-half-empty vs graph-half-full problems abound in UX and the answer is always to use the one that tells the least lies. So in this case the graphs should represent people - how can you represent emptiness?
I would like to see actual people on the graph (not one person scaling) as this will show you exactly how busy each place is - and, if you know how big a place is you can estimate how full it will feel.
Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
#44very nice clean use of raphael. referenced stylesheet "all.css" returns 404
Thanks for the heads up, I've fixed the all.css 404.
The raphael code could do with cleaning up too
Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
#45Thank you for the 'how this works' section, which is 'must have' for projects posted here!
Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
#46I made something somewhat similar a few years back because I thought it was something that I would use. I did not follow through, but I'm glad you did. I think there's a lot to be done with this. Good luck!
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#47Great project. Is it possible to include the best time of the day to visit, e.g. "quiet on Wednesday mornings"? Also: Do you adjust for longer opening times? Maybe some venues close sooner on some days.
Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
#48A bit odd UI-wise that the largest column is the least desirable. At least that's assuming that you'll want to visit at quiet periods. If you expanded to include pubs and clubs, popularity might be more desirable. Perhaps change the graphs instead of being block colour to have a texture of little people - eg something like http://static2.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/9/8/7/large2/789645.... or http://www.vectorstock.com/c…
Glass-half-empty vs graph-half-full problems abound in UX and the answer is always to use the one that tells the least lies. So in this case the graphs should represent people - how can you represent emptiness? I would like to see actual people on the graph (not one person scaling) as this will show you exactly how busy each place is - and, if you know how big a place is you can estimate how full it will feel.
> actual people on the graph (not one person scaling)
yeah I couldn't find an image which showed exactly what I meant, but yes, that is what I had in mind.
Although you seem to be suggesting that you should be able to get a literal exact count of the people. I think that that won't be possible or useful because the data is aggregated over several timepoints. I guess "on mondays, approx 10 people visit" might be useful, but I see this graph as more of a general indicator of how busy a place generally is.
Using a repeating image of little stick people will hint to users that the bars represent visitor volume.
Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
#49Very nice. For extra whizzyness you should ajaxify it so you can use raphael's lovely animation in place of page transitions, like http://populationpyramid.net/
Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Glass-half-empty vs graph-half-full problems abound in UX and the answer is always to use the one that tells the least lies. So in this case the graphs should represent people - how can you represent emptiness? I would like to see actual people on the graph (not one person scaling) as this will show you exactly how busy each place is - and, if you know how big a place is you can estimate how full it will feel.
> actual people on the graph (not one person scaling) yeah I couldn't find an image which showed exactly what I meant, but yes, that is what I had in mind. Although you seem to be suggesting that you should be able to get a literal exact count of the people. I think that that won't be possible or useful because the data is aggregated over several timepoints. I guess "on mondays, approx 10 people visit" might be usefu…
>Using a repeating image of little stick people will hint to users that the bars represent visitor volume.
This is a very good idea. Unfortunately his bars are vectors drawn with SVG, I don't think it allows background images.
Another, perhaps not as clear suggestion would be to simply add a "Smaller bars mean less busy" message under the graph, like you see on performance benchmarks.