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Twitter clients distribution in real-time

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Re: Twitter clients distribution in real-time

#5

Neat, but the frequent updates make it hard to read anything other than the major apps.

I think a pause button would be in order.

Other things that could help:

1) Group anything with less than 1 or 2ish percent into an "other" category

2) Show an alphabetized table below the pie chart.

3) Preserve label position when possible, only move the lines most of the time.

4) Animate between samples

But really, better than all this, would be a scrolling, stacked line graph.

Re: Twitter clients distribution in real-time

#6

Neat, but the frequent updates make it hard to read anything other than the major apps.

A better visualization would be a time-series chart with a fixed number of clients (have a fall-out period instead of hiding a client immediately).

Like these: http://smoothiecharts.org/ or http://www.highcharts.com/demo/dynamic-update

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