Elastic lists. Just a short post, but another demo is online. It is a demonstration of the “elastic list” principle for browsing multi-facetted data structures. Click any number of list entries to query the database for a combination of the selected attributes. If you create an “impossible” configuration, your selection will be reduced until a match is possible. The example data is based on the Noble prize winners dataset used in the Flamenco facet browser. Elastic lists enhance traditional facet browsing approaches by • visualizing relative proportions (weights) of metadata values by size • visualizing unusualness of a metadata weight by brightness • and animated filtering transitions.
In unfiltered view, the brightness shows a trend measure, indicating a rising number of prices of the last years. In filtered views, a brighter background indicates a higher weight of the metadata value compared to the overall distribution. UI-patterns.com. PatternBrowser. Main Page - Social Patterns.