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Re:Experienced Users View Reddit Differently by lbarrow on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:13PM (#2824030)
GazeHawk intern here. These are really good points. We're aware that heatmaps can be problematic and we think about tweaking the way we build them quite a bit. Maybe in a few blog posts time you'll notice that we're using a different-looking visualization. I've put that IBM study into our "food for thought" reading list.
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Re:Experienced Users View Reddit Differently by panacea on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:19PM (#2824060)
You should, because I was wondering why experienced redditors seemed to be fixated on blank space according to this image: http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/redd...

...The two red hot-spots to the right and further down the page.

Is it an emergent distortion because of the heat map? Is it an aggregate spot between the link above and the link below that ends up being significant? Do experienced redditors rest their eyes on blank patches of the page??

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Re:Experienced Users View Reddit Differently by lbarrow on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:24PM (#2824070)
It's the heatmap. The threshold between red and white in the heatmap appears to be more meaningful than it actually is.
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