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It takes a second to comprehend the sheer scale of information presented but once you do it's a good scorecard/visualization. Congrats!
Hello Jeremy,
I think you are preparing the best option to win... I wish you the best and everybody who vote for it
Thanks!
I've my fingers crossed :-)
Thanks! 128 sets of user preferences I can't wait to start visualizing once the contest ends ;).
Is there any progress with short-list of 10 finalists so far?
Looking like Apr 10th: https://twitter.com/#!/buzzdata/status/185140004144693249
Here we go! Votes are open I guess http://buzzdata.com/content/vote/
:D. Congrats to both of yas.
Hello Matthew, interesting approach and Numbeo seems to be a great resource!
All the best
Hello Jeremy, i really liked the way you have put the indicators in context through a relevant simple question. All the best
I like the way you recompute the weather score. I wish I had time to add this to my viz.
Thanks! :) At first, I had some trouble trying to think of what weather is "best" - but the scale itself really says it all: it's not so much about rewarding good weather as it is penalizing the bad.. ;)
I took a look at your stuff too, and I quite like the idea of personalizing the final output - especially when my model could easily have been extended to support that too... But ah well, you live and you learn! Next time...
I wanted to add an other panel so the 'user' can set the min / max temp and sunshine is looking for, but (1) no time to compute this on my end and (2) the interface will look too messy and complex with this on the top.
So using my app, what's your best city? Still the same?
I actually ended up with Melbourne, but Toronto and Vancouver were close second and third. They all sounds like great places, to be honest..
I'm quite fond of Oslo, even if it doesn't quite measure up in this dataset. I expect it's simply too small, cool and expensive to be top tier.
Hi, i liked the way the weather parameter was incorporated in your index as well. Just as a note: Weather does have a significant impact on humans but "the more sunshine, the better" is not a universal rule :-). What the human body seems to like is "warmth and bright light but also, stability". Here is a link (http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/1/79.extract)....Jamaica had, for a long time, low incidence of heart disease which, besides the lifestyle, was also attributed to the fact that the temperature variability was rather low (It stays somewhere around 25 C throughout the year)...The temperature variability can be obtained from Wolfram Alpha for a rather long time, for example (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=jamaica+temperature+since+1980). All the best.
Hi arcald, and sorry for the slow response.
You make a very good point, sunnier isn't always better, just most of the time. ;)
It seemed to me to be a reasonable enough simplification - especially when you consider that excessive temperatures (high or low) and drought will give a reduction in the two other parameters making up my weather model.
Too much sun can lead to health problems (even when you discount the heat) such as skin cancer. Too little sun can lead to health problems as well, usually vitamin D deficiency or winter depression. I guess people can complain about weather, no matter what it is, if they really want to... :D
Nice! It'd be fun to generate the same charts with new weights based on the individuals preferences (I'm fairly certain my elicitation data could give a new scaling of the 5 factors). What software did you use for the viz?
Thanks and yes, that would be interesting!.
When thinking about the charts I thought it would also be possible to use a sort of pie charts where each "slice" angle represents the weight and the radius the value of the factor.
I used d3.js to create the viz, (first time!)
Cool! I'll definitely give d3.js a go -- looks fun.
got php error page when I click on a city details from within the form (left side bar0
From the query page? Weird...one sec.
Fixed (it happens when you submit once, and then go back to do it again).
Actually unfixed (but noted). I'm keeping the site unchanged (warts and all) for now until I can confirm that bug-fixes with a changelog are permitted.
I've fixed and noted the change giving you credit ( thecity4.me/changelog ). Thanks for spotting it!
thanks :)
Clean and quick application. As a user, I would not mind a few more questions to get some more accurate results though. It would definitely still not be a "waste of time" even if it went up to 7-10 questions.
Hi, i am looking forward to the "behind the scenes" functionality :-). Great job...I was thinking more about an objective metric but the "wisdom of the crowds" is certainly not something to be ignored.
Thanks ;). Although it would be a quick fix to hook up the beakers (the text is already written for every page), I think that is more of a new feature than a simple bug fix: I'm only putting in critical fixes with a full change-log so visitors can experience what was actually submitted (at least until the contest is over).
I'd be more than happy to answer any questions about what's going on though if you'd like. It'd be interesting to scale the distance computation you used based on the expected indicator weights from thecity4.me. I bet there'd be some shake-up in the absolute distances, and you could add the filter to each of your questions: i.e., What are the two most different cities...according to the preferences of Canadians? ...according to my preferences? etc.
Great visualizations btw. Love the idea of Athens at the centre ;).
Yes, correlating the public opinion with objective metrics (as you suggest in the second paragraph) would be interesting.
Thanks for your comments, the good thing about this kind of presentation is that every city gets a chance at the centre of the stage :-D
Nice one :-) The objective metrics are great but the popular consensus is certainly not to be missed, at least for each potential to reveal the details of what is really valued by people.
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It takes a second to comprehend the sheer scale of information presented but once you do it's a good scorecard/visualization. Congrats!