DIVE Update (2/10/16 - 2/18/16)
DIVE is located at two password-protected sites, with the latest development version on staging (please use this to test) and the weekly stable release on the stable site:
Staging: staging.usedive.com. (password: macro)
Stable: usedive.com. (password: macro. Limited datasets)
For any bug reports or feature requests, please e-mail us personally or at dive@media.mit.edu.
[Feature] Compose
Since we've worked on DIVE, we've wondered about the best way for users to share their results. We already support sharing individual visualizations, but what if a user wants to share multiple visualizations and include context? So on the new Compose page, we let users create long scrolling narratives like the Observatory of Economic Complexity country profiles:
The workflow is: 1) star visualizations (and, in the future, analyses), 2) go to Compose and click starred visualizations to insert them as blocks on a document, and 3) change the content of blocks or the format and size of visualizations:
There's a lot more work to do, but we've finished the first 80%:
- Allowing visualization saving
- Creating and deleting documents
- Basic content + visualization formatting on blocks
- Auto-saving and loading documents
We'd love to have everyone's feedback on the interaction and features! Next up are mostly sharing and aesthetic features, but also more interactions:
- Shareable links to documents (mostly done)
- Exporting to PDF
- Allowing users to choose different styles/themes for their documents
- Rearranging blocks
- More text formatting options
Bugs we're aware of:
- Title truncation
- Inability to navigate from compose back to visualization or analysis without first returning to datasets page
[Compatibility] IE11
While we develop on Chrome for Mac, DIVE nows works smoothly and almost completely on IE11+ (tested on Windows 7). There are a few remaining styling differences that we will address.
Next Up
- Compose export, styling, interaction features
- Correlating ad spend and sales data
- Full redesign