Some ideas for the presentation of the table to make it more digestible:
1. Is the table downloadable? Can it be made downloadable?
2. Can the table cell/font sizes and table height be made adjustable? It would be nice to be able to fit more of it (ideally all of it) on my screen at once. Just zooming out in my browser doesn’t work, since the table shrinks, too, and the same cells are displayed.
3. What about description boxes that pop up when you click on (or hover over) a cell (description/motivation of the feature itself, a box with the footnotes/text/sources when you click on the given cell)? Could also stick to informal recognizable names (cows, ants) where possible and put the taxon in a popup to save on space.
For now, (1) the table is not downloadable. Regarding (3), in various cases, we use the taxon or the species name to highlight that existing evidence only applies to that specific species. Thus, generalizing from a single species to the rest of the taxon or higher taxonomic ranks is potentially problematic –primarily when an invertebrate category comprises a large group of species, as is the case with ants.
Thank you for your suggestions. We will take them into account to improve our work.
+1 for the highlighting. Especially if we could toggle this on and off! This might also be a good system to use if we could highlight species as “likely sentient”, “weak-evidence for sentience”, “unknown”, “Little evidence of any sentience”, “likely not sentient.”
Perhaps someone else might have better names for these classifications...
Some ideas for the presentation of the table to make it more digestible:
1. Is the table downloadable? Can it be made downloadable?
2. Can the table cell/font sizes and table height be made adjustable? It would be nice to be able to fit more of it (ideally all of it) on my screen at once. Just zooming out in my browser doesn’t work, since the table shrinks, too, and the same cells are displayed.
3. What about description boxes that pop up when you click on (or hover over) a cell (description/motivation of the feature itself, a box with the footnotes/text/sources when you click on the given cell)? Could also stick to informal recognizable names (cows, ants) where possible and put the taxon in a popup to save on space.
4. Different colour cells for “Likely No”, “Lean No”, “Unknown”, “Lean Yes”, “Likely Yes” (e.g. red, pink, grey, light green, green).
Hi MichaelStJules!
For now, (1) the table is not downloadable. Regarding (3), in various cases, we use the taxon or the species name to highlight that existing evidence only applies to that specific species. Thus, generalizing from a single species to the rest of the taxon or higher taxonomic ranks is potentially problematic –primarily when an invertebrate category comprises a large group of species, as is the case with ants.
Thank you for your suggestions. We will take them into account to improve our work.
+1 for the highlighting. Especially if we could toggle this on and off! This might also be a good system to use if we could highlight species as “likely sentient”, “weak-evidence for sentience”, “unknown”, “Little evidence of any sentience”, “likely not sentient.”
Perhaps someone else might have better names for these classifications...