[MG] Visualization problems for crossforum theatre

[Michael Allan]

Pietro Speroni di Fenizio wrote:
> i personally would let people tag questions, and then use the tags
> to map the position of the questions in an n dimensional space. Thus
> defining the distance between questions. Then on the 2D image I
> would use a projection of the n dimensional space using Khonnen map.
Ed Pastore wrote:
> Can you think of any way of reconciling this with Thomas' idea of a
> geographic zoom model? The geographic model is much more easily
> intuited by the novice, but it completely excludes non-geographic-
> centric issues.
Thomas wrote:
> ... And once I have zoomed into my city, it would be perfect to
> switch to the tag-based view.

Then you'd see the tag map, but scoped down to your city.  (We'd have
to teach the tagmap to do geoscoping, in addition to whatever other
scoping it supports.)
 
Ed Pastore wrote:
> Conversely, the n-dimensional space organized by organic evaluation
> of tags is the most robust and most likely the best long-term
> method. But it would be difficult for newcomers to orient to. And
> early on, when there isn't a lot of data, it may be sparse and
> chaotic. Until there is a lot of data in the system, the map would
> keep shifting and rearranging, wouldn't it?

Should I start coding a geomap?  Conseo's diff feed will give us both
an issue ID and two user IDs for each bite.  Even if the issue isn't
geo-plottable, the users will be.

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Michael Allan

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