Suggestion: Please Fix Topics and Interesting Words
Topics and Interesting Words are nifty looking - but I can't see all the words.
All of the words are on the screen but some of them are so small that I'm not able to see them.
- I'd like to suggest adding an option to be able to view these 2 features - Topics and Interesting Words - differently. For instance, maybe the words could appear in a list format (which would be much more readable) - with the most important words toward the top of the list and the less important ones toward the bottom.
That would be extremely helpful to me - anyway.
Comments
Stein, Tom:
In fact we're working on alternative display for Topics that should be more readable. I'm not sure about Interesting Words, though i'd personally favor an alternative there as well.
Thanks Sean,
I believe the way Logos has decided to display topics and interesting words is a clear example of people saying that L4 is not user friendly - it is design for those computer programmer type of people.
The display looks cool, but I cannot make head or tales of what it is telling me. Do the different colors mean anything? Words are different sizes, what does that mean? Does the position of the words mean anything? Some words are printed out horizontally and others are printed out vertically, what does this mean? There are too many questions that the user must answer before he/she can use it.
Now if the user knows all of the answers to the above questions, is this word a different color than that word, or is it an optical illusion because of the colors of the words next to them? The same issue comes with the size of the font and the location of the words.
If a user has to go and find a key to be able to decipher the report, than the report has a bad design.
I don't mind the present format, but agree with tom's line of thought--I'd assumed that the larger size text was triggered by some liguistic heuristic to draw the user to the more signficant word, and perhaps colors were linked to part of speech/TVM. Maybe if a mouse-over led to an explanatory pop-up?
Not being Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic savvy, I hadn't gone into any further depth of thought on that yet.
In one of my Layouts, I noticed that the font size for those reports got crazy small for me...they seem to hard-enforce an inch right/left margin, which becomes a limiting factor when restricting the PG to a modestly narrow (40%) column on my portrait-oriented 1200x1600 monitor. If I float the PG, the text becomes readable again...wish it would stop enforcing such a huge margin though; nothing else does that.
I don't mind the present format, but agree with tom's line of thought--I'd assumed that the larger size text was triggered by some liguistic heuristic to draw the user to the more signficant word, and perhaps colors were linked to part of speech/TVM.
I have no idea what the colors are for, but the relative sizes of the words have to do with frequency of occurrence in the passage.
Since this topic has been resurrected, I'd like to state that my thoughts on this topic are changing. We are getting more questions on the forums about text analytics. The real question then becomes - do the users want Logos to do the analytics and present the data to the user or does the user wish to do their one analytics. I would suggest that Logos resources are sufficiently biased to the "North American Protestant canon" and that early translations are so sparsely represented, that end user analytics are necessary for a significant group of users. However, it is also true that the largest base of users haven't the background or interest to do the work themselves and Logos would fill a need by providing some "predigested" materials.
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