The problem is, the entire point of the charts is the layout: the charts have highlights and callouts that illustrate *why* these numbers matter. That's essential, because each individual element is trivial, most of them utterly unimportant (and there are often hundreds of them) -- it's the shapes and averages that matters, and the judgement calls come from how much a given data point is off from the average lines.
The info is available in tabular form, but it's so voluminous as to be nearly useless. The point of the UI is to be able to provide a gestalt of a huge amount of data in condensed form, so you can see how this one item is just sort of *wrong*.
(Not to mention that the *other* primary thing you are doing in this app is on-the-fly handwriting analysis, comparing two signatures and making an educated guess about whether one of them is forged.)
Seriously, when I say that this app is hard to make accessible, I mean it's one of the hardest such problems I've ever seen. I suspect it's Ph.D level work to come up with a workable model for each individual element...
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Date: 2012-05-02 08:58 pm (UTC)The info is available in tabular form, but it's so voluminous as to be nearly useless. The point of the UI is to be able to provide a gestalt of a huge amount of data in condensed form, so you can see how this one item is just sort of *wrong*.
(Not to mention that the *other* primary thing you are doing in this app is on-the-fly handwriting analysis, comparing two signatures and making an educated guess about whether one of them is forged.)
Seriously, when I say that this app is hard to make accessible, I mean it's one of the hardest such problems I've ever seen. I suspect it's Ph.D level work to come up with a workable model for each individual element...