opinions on

[jerome cukier]

http://oecdfactblog.org/health/HEevolution.html
(yes, heavily inspired from http://moritz.stefaner.eu/public/images/life-fertility-1024x768.png)
I'm satisfied with the vis currently but looking for feedback on what
could I have done differently? thanks

[Dan]

Nice,

Two ideas:

1) IMHO, using both color and size to show time is an unnecessary
feature. Especially as the direction of time is evident in the text
description and in the animated movement. It is enough to have the
current bubble being opaque, and the others a bit transparent.

2) When you free up color and size, use these to give us more
information and to facilitate seeing patterns. Use size to show for
example public % of health expenditure. Use color to group by region
etc. or calculate the interesting metric "life years / health
expenditure" so that one can see at what level health spending really
pays off in terms of given life expectancy (on a blue / red spectrum?)

Best regards.
Dan

On Nov 26, 5:09 pm, jerome cukier <jeromecuk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://oecdfactblog.org/health/HEevolution.html

> (yes, heavily inspired fromhttp://moritz.stefaner.eu/public/images/life-fertility-1024x768.png)

[Chris Viau]

The visualization reminds me of http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/64262/tvcg2008-trendvis.pdf which discusses in details the static representation of trends vs animation. According to this paper, your final static visualization would be considered more effective than the animation part.

A small detail: add a pointer-events:none style on the restart button labels so it don't prevent the button click.

[jerome cukier]

thanks Dan & Chris,

I'm making some changes. the folks who asked me to do this want an
animation so that much I can't change but I'm breaking this in several
stages, one where just the correlation is shown, one where the
evolution takes place and one where it transitions to small multiples.
So I can show more without (hopefully) overburdening the viewer. Will
post when done
thanks again
jerome

On 26 nov, 17:56, Chris Viau <christophev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The visualization reminds me ofhttp://research.microsoft.com/pubs/64262/tvcg2008-trendvis.pdfwhich

[poswald]

Looks nice. Reminds me of http://www.gapminder.org/

a small typo: "This is more true for countries who leave a vertical
trail,
and less true for those who leave a vertical one."