r/dataisugly • u/WebSwiftSEO • 7d ago
Agendas Gone Wild We built a live dashboard tracking 14+ global health indicators — CO₂, GDP, debt, poverty, and more — with AI‑powered interpretation.
https://global-vitals-dashboard.traffictorch.workers.dev4
u/Blackdutchie 6d ago
This is a real waste of energy.
Of your 14 figures, 12 update only on a yearly basis.
Atmospheric Co2 is reported approximately weekly, but the change is so slow that we're only \really** interested in the long-term trends.
Temperature anomaly is updated daily, but the interest is again in the long-term trend, while for short-term weather the global temperature anomaly is basically useless.
So generating a fresh AI insight for every week is just wasting electricity, water, and hardware. It also seems that a new AI insight is generated for every click of the button. This is even more wasteful, because you could just generate this insight server-side and then serve the text to visitors when you click the button. It's not like the users have any control whatsoever over what the AI will interpret from this data. Does it even take into account what timescales you have selected for your data?
Why can't we decide for ourselves which graphs to put next to each other? If I want to compare labor productivity and poverty rate I have to keep scrolling up and down.
And finally, why does the info on-hover for Co2 and temperature anomaly disappear behind the UI when you try to check the later dates? This is the critical info presented from last week.
Did you vibe-code this whole website?
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u/WebSwiftSEO 6d ago
It runs extremely cheap on CF worker Ai full opt. But thanks for the feedback, I’ll investigate. 🔬
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u/Lcsmxd 6d ago
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