| Great work! - The maps are pretty and scale nicely. The clarity and granularity of text is appreciated. - The controls are excellent. I might put the copy and help in the same single title/menu panel (without "viewing:" as obvious) Some other features I found myself wanting: - Visually bound the map so you can see when it can't be moved in a direction. Think about what to do when the control panel is open and the user is trying to drag the map to see what's under the panel (instead of closing the panel). - ability to sort data drill-down by number, to look at most prevalent - using gradients for data starts to break down at low numbers. I wonder if you can start putting dots under some threshold - time-range delta heat-maps: 2023 car break-ins vs 2022 (where green is improvement, red is worsening, and intensity is size of delta) - surfacing qualitative aspects of data sources: one or many (only police?); and perhaps user feedback on quality of data - curate super-categories, e.g., capturing all cocaine-related offenses, or distinguishing the stacked charges (loitering in the area of ...) from the operative ones (dealing), or crimes against (visiting?) strangers vs locals or friends. The data sources have their own arcane categorizing logic, and it's rarely what users actually want. - color-code user-specified combinations: prostitution + drugs vs either alone - Most of these relate to the kinds of questions users can answer with the maps, so if you have a (user-contributed?) panel with questions and their associated configuration sets, it would be very powerful and sticky. - Then it would be nice to apply the same configuration-set to different cities, and perhaps to see some comparison across cities Some things I wouldn't do: - All-caps, tm? ok, but... - I think putting safety under quality of life makes the product a bit less polarizing and hence more popular - which means adding other quality-of-life measures (e.g., zoning (residential/retail/manufacturing), cost/sf for housing, walkability scoring) E.g., it would be interesting to know which retail districts are super-safe. |