ilyabo/remittances

Interactive visualization of the world remittance flows

remittances's Issues

Add legend for circles and colors

English version

How do we manage the two language versions?

When a country is selected allow to see in the tooltips of other countries the exact numbers of migrants from the selected country

For development aid data: replace N/A with 0

Add latest remittance inflows data (2011, 2012 estimates)

xls-file sent via email

Play button for use when not within the intro

Start timeline for individual countries not at 1970, but at first year with data available for remittances

Should we implement a back-button for the intro?

Optimise responsiveness in browser

For smaller browser windows, the app doesn't adjust well (map is fixed)

Hide search field during intro

Two versions for details.remittances.title

details.remittances.title should be different for total view and country view.

the text "von Migranten in ihre Heimat gesendet" fits perfect for the total view, but could be misunderstood in the single country view (as remittance outflows of the selected country)

for the single country view, details.remittances.title should be something like "von Migranten erhalten"

Animation for slide 1 starts in 2010, should start in 1970

Copy edit all texts

Use singular in German version

added this to the messages.json

"amount.billions.singular" : "{0} Milliarde",
"amount.millions.singular" : "{0} Million",

Time-Slider

As far as I can see, the slider behaves differently in Firefox than in Chrome and Safari.

In Chrome and Safari, you have to point and drag the slider. In Firefox, it slides right and left whenever you move your cursor over it. Is that a Firefox-specific behaviour or can we apply it to the other browsers as well? The Firefox version makes it much easier for users to understand how to user the slider.

Show time-series of the selection, not totals, when a country is selected

Maybe we should not block the user input in the "intro mode"

It might be better for the user if we make it possible to interact with the vis already while the user looks through the guiding slides. So the input would not be blocked as it is now. But it would be possible to move the slide on the side, so it does not cover anything, and bring it back anytime.

This way it can be more engaging, because the user would starts to play with the visualization already in the first slide. And we would then need only one "Play" button. Now it's confusing with the many buttons.

What do you think?

Info to be displayed when country is selected

If a country is selected, hovering over another country should show how many emigrations of the selected country are in that country (absolute number and % of all emigrations of the selected country).

Provide texts for english version

Add country search

maybe for V 1.1 (no prio)

If country is selected, adjust curves at the bottom to display just data for the selected country

Once intro is closed, it should be possible to re-open the last slide (containing instructions on how to use the app)

use grey font-color when value = n/a

For 2012 and 2011, show migration data of 2010

Legend for migrant colours

I think we need to add a small legend to indicate what the colours mean. My suggestion as to where to place it:

Add sources and link to github project to app

Add a little padding to the bottom of the page

horizontal time-axis looks cut off.

If country is selected by click, fill country name as value in seach box

German country names: corrections

• replace Großbritannien by Grossbritannien
• replace Argentina by Argentinien

No fill colour for country if migrants = 0

Currently, if a country has >0 migrants in any of the years, the country has a fill colour (very bright) for all years, even if the number of migrants falls to 0

add tageswoche logo to bottom right corner, opacity 0.6, link to tageswoche.ch

Big black space when intro is closed

once the intro is closed, we have a big black space on the left (because we moved the numbers panel to the right). how about moving the numbers panel to the left once the intro is closed?

Next-Button in Intro should always stay at the same position

currently, you have to move your finger/cursor up and down to click through the intro. would be more comfortable, if the button stayed at a fixed position, no matter how long the text above is.

Replace hover behaviour with click

To enhance usability on touch devices all hover actions have to be replaced with click actions so it's possible to tab on touch devices. @ilyabo

Implement play-button/functionality for time axis

Add animations for all slides

Check outlier data for remittances per migrant

Intro bugs

Firefox: all fine
Chrome: transition from slide 2 to 3 not possible
Safari: all transitions work, but text not displayed (only buttons)

all tested on mac osx 10.8.2.

"Four times bigger than foreign aid" seems to be wrong

Intro #2 should be fixed. According to OECD data remittances of 2011 seem to be only 2.5 times larger than aid:

Initial state of app

I think we should add a slide before the current first one that gives a brief general intro to the topic and asks the user to launch the intro. When the user clicks on launch, the now first slide appears and the animation starts. What do you think, @ilyabo?