Curious to know since you mentioned that it was fast for thousands of PDFs... any rough timing information on some of your queries for that kind of dataset?
It took me a long time to realize that articles related to a topic can be seen by clicking on the year. This instruction is hidden below the screen fold. It'd also be nice to see actual numbers (along with the %) for each year during hover.
It'd also be useful to see a curated list of topics to select from, instead of just randomly picking some related topics on page load. Hopefully they harvest some interesting suggestions they receive through @nyt. There are some fun topic-suggestions in this thread already.
Overall, a nifty tool that I wish existed for all news sources in the world and worked across all languages.
We've had professors who have over 350,000 emails and years of email history use the system, and it has handled that pretty ok. So, don't worry about the network being over-populated. We do limit the number of nodes that the network shows initially. You can adjust that later if you wish to do so.
As for your time counter of 20 mins, that is a bit odd. Has the first version of the network not loaded for you? If you are on the /viz page, just refresh it. If the server has fetched at least the first batch of metadata, then the corresponding network will load immediately, and the rest of the fetching will happen in the background. Please note that we are also having heavy traffic at the moment; so the fetching process could be a bit slow.
The 'Play' button is something we'd already implemented in a previous prototype, but it wasn't ready enough to be included in this release. It will show up in a future release though. :)
Also, by _slow_, were you referring to the actual rendering of the network when you adjusted the time-slider? Or the initial loading of the network itself? Because the former is actually pretty fast (if you are using Chrome), and the latter is something that we've tried to optimize as much as possible, but there are limitations.
That's the first we've heard of that error. When the user logs out, they are also presented with the link to revoke access via Gmail. Sorry you weren't able to get to that page. If you want to make sure that your data is deleted, we can do a manual delete of your metadata (if it exists on our server) for you. Just write to us at the address on the website.
Over the last year or so, after gradually changing my lifestyle to include some exercise and giving some attention to what I eat, I can personally attest to the fact that productivity and efficiency has greatly increased. There is also a marked improvement psychologically in terms of the will and desire to do things. There really seems to be an increase in energy levels as compared to before, and I seem to have a clearer dialogue with my body now. Post-workout metabolism has done wonders for my previously irregular and haphazard appetite.
I also agree with the bit about protein consumption in the morning. It can be a simple smoothie, along with scrambled eggs & some almonds, or it could be one of those whey-enhanced protein shakes - either way, it'll keep you going in full steam till lunch time.
Thats a great connection you've made between seemingly disconnected & distant disciplines. If we figure out the actual biological and chemical processes involved in a human body while it is indulging in synthesizing an 'original sin', that would be a big win in terms expanding our species' knowledge-base.
I'm sure there's research out there that explains at least fews bits of it through experiments where they monitor bodily processes when a person is lying. There are some common methods like the lie-detector and GSR methods, but apart from those external monitoring methods, probably also some molecular/cellular-level observations have been made.
Thank you for showing and communicating a sense of clarity that many colleagues around me (sometimes myself incl) seem to lack. People talk of 'founding' a startup and 'i'm an entrepreneur' as if its like a roadtrip to tahoe. Its not. Period.
As is evident from some of the comments here, the map and the search bar on top are totally extraneous to the basic task that the user wishes to perform.
The absolute barebones should be shown: Starting location, Destination, Dates. And then maybe a less noisy version of the price-points plot from which one can just drag and drop certain options into a bucket for comparison.
The fact that so much scrolling needs to be done to even get a basic understanding of the results means this needs to be reworked.