Politicians with $0 DEM don't show up in search

[dturnbull]

Users currently won't know that if someone isn't showing up in the search it is because they have $0 DEM. They might think it is because we are missing their data or something is wrong/not working. It'd be good for all legislators to be included, even those that have $0 in DEM to avoid this confusion.

[michalgm]

i've changed the way the graphs are built to include legislators with $0. There's three different methods I've found to do this:
1: link them all to a single dummy company called 'Accepted $0' or something like that - you can see this method at http://dev.states.dirtyenergymoney.com
2: I can create a 'cluster' of nodes with a box around them (which we could choose to hide) by linking all the $0 people to one another - seen here: http://gregstates.styrotopia.net
3: If we don't link the $0 people to anything, they are randomly scattered throughout the graph, I found this to be pretty distracting, so I didn't implement it like that, but if anyone wants to see it like that, I can whip up an example pretty easy.

Obviously, there's tweaking that could/should be done on both methods 1 and 2, but does anyone have a preference? One minor hidden drawback to 2 is that the graph files are bigger due to all the extra edges.

[dturnbull]

I like option 1 -- except that when you click on that "dummy company called Accepted $0", what comes up is (not surprisingly) a bit confusing.

Option 2 looks a bit "unrefined" in the graph to me, but could also work.

[michalgm]

Yeah - consider these prototypes for now - they both need some work to
be fully implemented. But we need to make a decision on which base
method to use before I can begin that work.

On 09/25/2013 09:55 AM, dturnbull wrote:

I like option 1 -- except that when you click on that "dummy company
called Accepted $0", what comes up is (not surprisingly) a bit confusing.

Option 2 looks a bit "unrefined" in the graph to me, but could also work.

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[stanleyjones]

I like Option 2. They look like a posse and it avoids the dummy company problem (what do we call that?). With some styling, it would look great.

How much bigger are the graphs? Just a couple K?

[michalgm]

ok - I went with option two. I believe I've polished things enough to be usable - I've removed the box, and slightly faded the people with no contribs.