Timeline issues

[glciampaglia]

From @mihaivavram on January 19, 2018 17:7

Moved this comment later down.

Copied from original issue: IUNetSci/hoaxy-botometer#193

[glciampaglia]

From @mihaivavram on January 31, 2018 14:10

The following are low priority:

• When there are a few scores to visualize (or not enough dates/edges) the animation should be disabled
• calibrate top chart with focus chart upon zoom if possible as dates get truncated (try to update nvd3 and d3) - UPDATE: Tried to update nvd3 and d3 but these packages are updated to the latest versions, if we try to update d3 to d4/d5 where issues may be fixed, it runs into compatibility issues. Maybe we can think of other ways to solve this problem such as leaving the zoom/focus function as default and not overriding our own, and triggering the update of the graph some other way. Or look into other solutions.
  • When one time-selects a period of time in the bottom graph, sometimes the animation tick doesn't work (green tick freezes, but botscores still pop up one by one)
  • On some rare occasions, the timeline does not start from the correct place, so the beginning tick is not aligned with the first date on the timeline. So the animation may start from before the timeline or within the timeline.
• left padding/margin of timeline needs to be increased slightly

These have been fixed:

• when switching from Twitter to Hoaxy search, the colors of the claims/fact-checks in the timeline mismatch the ones from the legend, where the green color of the tick is switched with the claims or fact-checks
• disable timeline selector upon new search query because it lingers on for proceeding queries and messes up the timeline
• when searching for new query, reset timeline just in case no results come up and show old timeline
• (fixed) When there is only one date/timestamp to render in the timeline, the animation should be disabled as it currently breaks the graph and the timestamps are non-intuitive.

[glciampaglia]

From @mihaivavram on January 31, 2018 14:12

One way to bring the (one existing timestamp) issue up is by searching for topics that may have been popular a while ago i.e.

#pizzagate or Spider Man in Twitter search with the popular selection option.

The way to bring the time-select animation problem is by sub-selecting the right-segment of a graph time graph and clicking play-animation afterwards.

[onurvarol]

I was also wondering if adding a feature on timeline possible. Right now counts for human and bot accounts shows the total number. Is it possible to dynamically change them as the timeline evolves and number of nodes reflect on those numbers as well?

Maybe raw numbers and fractions presented together, dynamic graphs can give hints on when bots are more active.

[filmenczer]

We will create a new issue with @onurvarol's suggestion.