Hello, Dan Wilson here. I’m doing most of the user interface stuff for Timetric.
This morning I pushed a big update to the dashboard page, adding some new functionality, and making it quite a bit prettier.
Overview
The dashboard is the registered user’s entry point to the site, and gives a brief summary of all the nuggets they’ve expressed an interest in.
The summary includes a sparkline for each nugget, which provides a succinct visual summary of the history of the series. We’ve rewritten the sparkline generator from scratch for this update, and as a result is considerably faster, and gives more attractive results.
Analysis
Since the dashboard is the natural place to view collections of nuggets, we’ve added some basic analysis tools. Pairs of nuggets can be selected using the tick boxes down the left-hand edge, and overlaid upon each other, or turned into a “versus”-graph using the buttons at the bottom.
You can also create a new calculated nugget from your selections by clicking the button under “Build a Nugget”.
You can then edit the formula using an Excel-like syntax, and then click “Create”.
Feed Me
Finally, we’ve added a combined news feed for all the nuggets on your dashboard, which you can subscribe to in any news-reader which supports password-protected feeds.
As usual, we’d love to hear your feedback.