The past 6 months we’ve been focusing on our development efforts on various user interface improvements on nyrkio.com.

Most of this work was in response to feedback and feature requests from our customers. Before I continue, this is a good moment to stop and thank our early customers for great partnership the past year. Thank You! I hope these improvements have been useful to you. But if you still have problems or ideas for improvement, please continue to tell us.

Use same code paths for all graphs

The user visible improvements were preceded by architectural changes that would allow us to iterate on UX improvements faster. We consolidated the code paths for “My Dashboard”, “Org dashboard”, and “Public dashboards”. Previously it often happened to new functionality that it was only available in one kind of graph, but not in the other two.

Synchronized graphs

When hovering above a data point, all the other graphs will also show a tool tip for the corresponding data. Same if you zoom in one graph, then all other graphs will follow.

(The zooming, panning, and hovering and clicking is still a bit overloaded and will likely change during Q2)

Configuration panel

Some configuration was difficult to find, especially for new users. Now it should be easier as we put all the

relevant configuration widgets into a new panel that appears right on top of the benchmarking results. So for example changing the p-value or magnitude limits here, you can immediately observe the graphs recomputing and redrawing the change points right on the same page.

Show all graphs on the same page

If you have organized your graphs so that you need too click back and forth through several pages, it can become a bit tedious review all of them. To make it easier to review the graphs in such a case, it is now possible to simply show all graphs on the same parent page. The button “Show all graphs” becomes available when there are 30 or less graphs left in a sub-hierarchy of the current page.

Documentation and video tutorial

To try all of these features for yourself, follow the tutorial in our documentation, or the video tutorial below. If you have feedback on these features, or want to suggest new features, you are welcome to submit an issue in our Github project.

More to come

Earlier in 2024 we also introduced support for Github orgs, and made a significant performance improvement to the underlying change point detection algorithm. I will write about those in more detail separately.

The core algorithm at the heart of Nyrkiö got a significant speed boost in October. There’s an upcoming article and conference presentation to be published about that work.