UI suggestion: Sort M/F or F/M

[chrisaldrich]

Given the prevalence of older men with younger women and the fact that currently the largest gap is actually a MUCH older woman and a younger man, it would be interesting if the sort could be done on a gender basis with the +# indicating one direction and a -# indicating the reverse. This way one could more easily emphasize the larger M/F gap and the way in which it skews. It would also more easily highlight the far fewer cases in which women exceed men in age.

[lynnandtonic]

@chrisaldrich Thanks for the suggestion! Great idea. I'm noodling on this and will post some options here soon.

[lynnandtonic]

I added some initial markup and styling for a sorting feature here: https://github.com/lynnandtonic/hollywood-age-gap/blob/sorting/src/views/templates/index.jade#L39-L45

I was thinking three options:

• Age gap (default, as it is now)
• Older man
• Older woman

For the "Older man" it would sort cards in the following order:

• Man older descending age gap
• Man older no age gap (0 years)
• Woman older ascending age gap

Same idea for "Older woman". Calculations would need to account for same gender couples too.

Does that seem like a good approach?

@JasonRose Would love your thoughts here too!

[sansthesis]

This should work. implementing the other sorts shouldn't be an issue.

[chrisaldrich]

I had noticed a few same gender couples, but hadn't thought about including those as breakout category, but I suspect that some gender studies researchers would find this a useful visualization for their work. It's also likely to spur them to add that kind of missing data.

[lynnandtonic]

Some things have changed for this and the markup is here now: https://github.com/lynnandtonic/hollywood-age-gap/blob/sorting/src/views/templates/index.pug#L39-L45