Project: About this data

[larsyencken]

Background

• This year we completely redesigned our metadata so that we could give people much more context in key places, including the grapher page and the sources tab.
• Traditionally the “tab of shame”, the sources tab was often a dumping ground for various information we wanted to link to indicators.
• The Grapher redesign to ship imminently replaces the sources tab with a metadata overlay, but only an MVP of it will ship at first.

Goal for this cycle

Ship an upgraded metadata overlay that beautifully renders new metadata when it’s available, and still looks great with old metadata.

Rabbit holes / scope risk

Old and new metadata

• Today, nearly all the metadata shown this way will be old metadata
• We hope that by year's end, all new or updated charts will have new metadata

To de-risk: plan to get to a rendering prototype quickly, then do design iteration from there

Multi-indicator charts

• Some charts have multiple indicators (up to 25 in the worst case)
• Currently unclear if we want to de-duplicate the metadata if all indicators have a common dataset
• If we decide not to de-duplicate, we're not currently sure how to best accommodate many indicators in the sources modal

To de-risk: plan to get to a rendering prototype quickly, then do design iteration from there

Hyperlink entry point - OUT OF SCOPE

• We changed the entry point to a hyperlink, from a tab
  • We think that many fewer people will click to reveal this information now
• We have resolved not to worry about it this cycle though

Data page linking - OUT OF SCOPE

• We would ideally consider how to link from the sources info to the data page
• But it's out of scope for this cycle
• In any case, clicking on the chart title will take you to the data page if one exists

Implementation plan

• see Tasks: About this data #2752