Michael McKelvey and Sarthak Prasad met to continue discussing how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics in the iCAP Portal.

Discussion/Decisions

• Option #1: continue showing metrics in accordion on project page
  • Pros:
    • No new effort needed
  • Cons:
    • Lots of metrics on a single page - kind of overwhelming
    • Page load could get slow
• Option #2: parent project for all pedestrian & bicycle counts with a sub-project for each counter, similar to how Solar Power on Campus is set up
  • Pros:
    • Only 1 metric per page
    • Simple solution
    • Easy to find each counter in hierarchy
  • Cons:
    • 30+ new projects - hierarchy bloat?
    • Don't see all the metrics together; have to visit each project to see its metric
• Option #3: show all metrics on a single graph
  • Pros:
    • See everything in one place
    • No new projects needed
  • Cons:
    • New feature requires additional work to implement
    • Graphing dozens of items makes it hard to differentiate them - too much data
• Things to consider:
  • What information do we want people to get from the data? Comparison of pedestrian vs bicycle? Comparison of various locations?
  • Discuss graphing long-term metrics

TODOs:

• Bring options to larger group
• Sarthak will investigate whether Eco Counters website could allow embedding of their visualizations