Reddit Karma Dashboard

Hi Qiuyun_Yu

Thanks for the feedback :) I had noticed that popping up occassionally. Do you think that when that occurs you should always take steps to ensure it doesn't, or do you think in some cases it is OK, as long as the user is made aware?

Is there a bias towards displaying the outliers first, with the missing values being part of the clusters? So effectively, even though the values may be missing, it shouldn't matter because they would be buried under the cluster? That may make it acceptable for this message to appear?

If you filter these values out at the report or page level, you risk some of the other visualisations suffering - perhaps there will be some values missing from an aggregate. Applying a filter directly to the visualisation may mean those elements can never be highlighted on the visualisation if you were to filter the report by clicking another visualisation's aggregate element. However, if you allow the system to hide them, it should still be able to present the data when needed - ie when the dataset is reduced by applying some other filter.

I'm not trying to be argumentative :) I think sometimes it's not always so clear whether it's OK for something like this to occur, and I'm interested in others opinions and experiences.

Edit - Ahah! Upon further investigation I found this case was caused by reddit sending more data than was requested. It happened at 11:00pm on the 25th October. When requesting data from reddit the default return count is 25, but in this instance it has returned 102 records (I checked the json response from reddit). So you'll notice that some posts suddently re-appear. Naughty reddit! Not much I can do about this either, aside from building a limiter in the insert procedure. But really, it's a bug on reddit's end.