Single article line chart display (test.parascope.io)

[jenniferlin15]

The XML downloads have disappeared from the single article line chart display.
Please add this third line to the chart.

Also, the display needs to be cleaned up.
Title: Article Usage over Time

Axis Labels:

• Total Usage
• Date
  These should be located on the outside of the graph. The font also needs to be increased - currently not legible due to size.

Graph Legend:

• HTML Views
• PDF Downloads
• XML Downloads
  Make the bubbles in the legend bigger and align the corresponding text with the items (currently too high).

Bubble hover over:

• [Title]
• Journal:
• Date: [convert timestamp. insert month and year.]
• Usage: [total usage for HTML, PDF, XML for PLOS and PMC]
  The fonts need to be increased - currently not legible due to size.

[jure]

Single article bubble chart display? You mean the line chart?

XML wasn't initially included because the API call needs to include info=detail,

"events": [
{
"month": "10",
"year": "2012",
"pdf_views": "177",
"xml_views": "35",
"html_views": "2520"
},

which makes things a bit slower. Given that ALM is plenty fast again, I can include that, sure.

The rest of the feedback sounds good too, thanks!

[mfenner]

You can also get the xml downloads without info=detail:

xml = total - (html + pdf)

See https://github.com/articlemetrics/lagotto/blob/master/app/models/sources/counter.rb#L19-L22 for details.

[jure]

We're talking about time-series data, right? Not just single point in time. Where in the API response would that be:

{
"name": "counter",
"display_name": "Counter",
"group_name": "viewed",
"events_url": null,
"by_day": [],
"by_month": [
{
"month": 10,
"year": 2012,
"html": 2520,
"pdf": 177
}
}

I only have html and pdf, for the counter, no total.

[mfenner]

You are right: https://github.com/articlemetrics/lagotto/blob/master/app/models/history.rb#L137-L150 For counter we have only html and pdf in time series, no total. I didn't care about the xml enough to expose it.

@jenniferlin15 do you really want xml downloads? We would need to change the ALM API for that, which I would rather postpone until we have done the changes in the database backend.

[jure]

To be clear, the previous visualization had XML downloads, but it did that by making two requests to the API and combining the results: https://github.com/articlemetrics/alm-report/blob/2e378a5c1bf3eb1d35d4139fbb486aa96ebbf0c1/lib/alm_request.rb#L197-L261

[mfenner]

Yes, my point is mostly about making this more efficient. Which might not be so important for a single article, where the API is probably fast enough.

Another consideration is whether we want to include other sources in this, something we can do since mid-2014 since we collect the numbers. We could also display daily stats the first 30 days after publication in a separate chart. That is up to @jenniferlin15, and of course the amount of work that would be needed.

[jure]

Actually, sure, this is the single article visualization, which already requests the info=detail, because it needs the locations for Mendeley bookmarks. In that case XML downloads are no additional effort in terms of API, just a matter of including it in the chart. Will do.

[mfenner]

Perfect.

[jure]

I managed to address some of this feedback:

• moved the axis labels
• bigger fonts
• tooltip changes (partially, due to the fact that every hover event is for a specific point on the chart, and thus can't include data about other points. this is something I need to address still)
• added XML line
• some legend feedback (it's not possible at this point to have a custom legend marker, it's constructed from the line name and the axis name, so "Html" + "Views")

Leaving this one open, but maybe this is good for now?

[jenniferlin15]

I think it's fine for now. Please just correct the capitalizatino of the
legend:

• HTML Views
• PDF Views
• XML Views.

Thanks!

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Jure Triglav [email protected]
wrote:

I managed to address some of this feedback:

• moved the axis labels
• bigger fonts
• tooltip changes (partially, due to the fact that every hover event
  is for a specific point on the chart, and thus can't include data about
  other points. this is something I need to address still)
• added XML line
• some legend feedback (it's not possible at this point to have a
  custom legend marker, it's constructed from the line name and the axis
  name, so "Html" + "Views")

[image: image]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/238667/5455146/38012e58-8539-11e4-9831-9e09f951e05f.png

Leaving this one open, but maybe this is good for now?

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