Rss Search

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Rss Search

• Lane LaRue
• Chas Williams
• Jason Wyttenbach

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Overview
Server Analysis
Posting Analysis
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Function

• Server Analysis

• Backend administration
• Interactive server logs
• Performance monitoring dashboard
• Overviews language and feed type

Posting Analysis

• Average Internet users
• Internet Researcher
• Physical location mapping
• Term frequency trends
• Advanced Filtering
• Multiple visualizations for large data set

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Scenario Demonstration
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Design Process
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Phase I

• Server Health

• Focused on Server Stats
• Influenced by heavy system development
• Used to support system development

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Phase II

• RSS Visualization

• Breakthrough Not restricted to current
  technology
• Added analysis of actual RSS Entries
• Geo data
• Term frequency analysis
• Provided blueprint for user testing

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Phase III

• Phase I Post Usability Testing

• Multiple Changes to Design
• Changed Posts menu category to RSS Entries
• Added introduction screen
• Updated scenarios

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Phase III

• Phase II Post Usability Testing

• Multiple Changes to Design
• Changed Posts menu category to RSS Entries
• Added introduction screen
• Updated scenarios

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Phase III

• Phase III Post Usability Testing

• Other Valuable Feedback
• Preserve search terms and date filter ranges
  between visualizations
• Combine Search and Compare To buttons into a
  single Add Term button
• Allow user to filter before zooming in geo data
• Alternating Colors to distinguish lines on the
  stacked graph
• Default visualization states Should they show
  all data or no data?
• Organize visualizations by type of data shown,
  not type of visualization
• Move selected Dashboard elements to RSS Entries
  menu

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Evaluation
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Evaluation
RSS Search is not near completion

• Back end system work needed to support front end
  design
• Posts vs. Server stats
• Does a user of the posts section need server
  stats?
• Cryptic labels
• Categories
• Hits
• Limited search functionality
• Visualization Dependent
• Uniform search functionality

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Future Improvements
Page Layout

• Separate Posts and Server areas into two
  separate tools.
• Resolves issues with the Posts vs. Server
  categorization
• Opens up UI to allow for more visualization
  options
• Create a visualization-independent search
  function
• Allows for a single search to be viewed over
  multiple visualizations.
• Removes excise
• Resolves uniformity issues with the current
  search function

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Questions