Maybe make the sliders “snap” to integer values, so that it looks cleaner.
Working with evidence percents “given all the evidence above” is sometimes hard to do. It may be useful to allow evidence-combination blocks just to allow filling things in as groups, even if only one of the numbers actually goes into the result, just so that the user can see that it all adds up to 100% and none of the dependent odds seem unreasonable.
Tooltips giving explanations of the terms “Prior” and “Posterior” could be good.
Some mouse-hover effect for the sliders’ areas might help.
As ProgramCrafter mentioned, more (up to five) hypotheses are already supported. It’s limited to 5 because finding good colors is hard, and 5 seemed like enough—but if you find yourself needing more I’d be interested to know.
The sliders already snap to tenth values (but you can enter more precise values in the textbox), and I think snapping to integers would sacrifice too much precision. It’s plausible that fifths could be better though, I’ll have to test that. I do want to introduce a way to allow for more precise control while dragging the sliders, which might address this concern to some extent by making it easy to stop at an integer value exactly if desired. But I haven’t thought of a good interface for doing that yet.
That sounds cool, but I’m not sure how to make a good interface for that that wouldn’t look too cluttered. I’m also worried people would misuse it for convenience. But I’ll keep thinking about it!
Tooltips to explain things would be cool and I have a similar thing planned already.
Suggestions:
Allow for more than two hypotheses.
Maybe make the sliders “snap” to integer values, so that it looks cleaner.
Working with evidence percents “given all the evidence above” is sometimes hard to do. It may be useful to allow evidence-combination blocks just to allow filling things in as groups, even if only one of the numbers actually goes into the result, just so that the user can see that it all adds up to 100% and none of the dependent odds seem unreasonable.
Tooltips giving explanations of the terms “Prior” and “Posterior” could be good.
Some mouse-hover effect for the sliders’ areas might help.
More than two hypotheses are already supported, you just need to close the “How to use” box.
Thanks for the suggestions!
As ProgramCrafter mentioned, more (up to five) hypotheses are already supported. It’s limited to 5 because finding good colors is hard, and 5 seemed like enough—but if you find yourself needing more I’d be interested to know.
The sliders already snap to tenth values (but you can enter more precise values in the textbox), and I think snapping to integers would sacrifice too much precision. It’s plausible that fifths could be better though, I’ll have to test that. I do want to introduce a way to allow for more precise control while dragging the sliders, which might address this concern to some extent by making it easy to stop at an integer value exactly if desired. But I haven’t thought of a good interface for doing that yet.
That sounds cool, but I’m not sure how to make a good interface for that that wouldn’t look too cluttered. I’m also worried people would misuse it for convenience. But I’ll keep thinking about it!
Tooltips to explain things would be cool and I have a similar thing planned already.
That’s a good idea, thanks!