Re:An IoT dashboard
by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 19, 2015 @07:02AM
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> Toilet flushes: a significant change in the frequency of toilet flushes may indicate the spread of communicable diseases such as gastroenteritis, or community health problems like food poisoning.
Well, you can't learn anything from just a number of today's flushes. With a proper chart graphing frequency over time and emphasizing changes, sure. But that's not what you get on the dashboard, at least without clicking. The lone number is useless.
> Apple-z: Clearly someone is having a lot of problems with whatever software they are using. There is a UX optimisation opportunity there.
Well, maybe. You can't tell from a lone number. Again, the graphs you can find when you click around could be useful, but not what you get by default.
Information is useless if it doesn't help you make decisions.
Well, you can't learn anything from just a number of today's flushes. With a proper chart graphing frequency over time and emphasizing changes, sure. But that's not what you get on the dashboard, at least without clicking. The lone number is useless.
> Apple-z: Clearly someone is having a lot of problems with whatever software they are using. There is a UX optimisation opportunity there.
Well, maybe. You can't tell from a lone number. Again, the graphs you can find when you click around could be useful, but not what you get by default.
Information is useless if it doesn't help you make decisions.