Is It Better to Rent or Buy?

Re:Is It Better to Rent or Buy? by pessimizer on Thursday May 22, 2014 @06:16PM (#7786898)

Maybe instead of just having reasonable defaults, you could include reasonable ranges through a background gradient on each graph (darker for more common, lighter for less common)? With that, you could manipulate the reasonable ranges through interactions between graphs, while still allowing people to set the actual number anywhere they pleased.

Also: big fan. Thanks for d3.

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Re:Is It Better to Rent or Buy? by mbostock on Thursday May 22, 2014 @06:51PM (#7787058)

Definitely. We actually designed something like that, but due to time constraints weren’t able to ship it (yet). One complication is that a reasonable range for a given variable can depend on other variables. But hopefully we’ll figure it out.

And thank you!

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Re:Is It Better to Rent or Buy? by nitrogen on Friday May 23, 2014 @01:59AM (#7788174)

I'm sure you've seen TangleJS by Bret Victor. Its performance wasn't quite good enough for the way I wanted to use it, but it looks like that level of meta-interactivity is what you're going for.

Here's my favorite demo of the concept, discovered here on HN: http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction

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Re:Is It Better to Rent or Buy? by GFischer on Friday May 23, 2014 @10:17AM (#7789430)

Wow, that's an impressive site, thanks for sharing.

I think I had seen the one on the future of interaction design, but I hadn't explored the site :) .

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