This prototype provides different colored glyphs. Our city bike customer can decide in this view to look at damage reports or driver frequency respectively. More views could be inserted here. In the maps container he can see the attribute's value in form of value sized circles. On the right navigation bar there will be a bar chart which will show more detailed information. E.g. if one clicks on damage reports the global size of them is seen in the maps whereas the bar graph shows which kind of damages occured at picked station. So there is a closer view of those damage reports categorized through the different causes of the damage. The same option is available for the stations traffic workload and other inserted views if needed.
- Advantages:
- It's quite easy to get a quick overview of the data visualized through the heatmaps.
- The interface is simple to use.
- Disadvantages:
- There is no time component.
- Heatmaps could cover other heatmaps
- Limited interaction/filter possibilities
- Improvements:
- There is the possibiliy to generate "in-and-out-heatmaps" for the traffics, with different colors. So if there is a little in-circle and a big out-circle, we can predict that this station could be empty quite often.