An easy way to make this great tool twice as good: Allow inverted selections.
I don't want to live near sketchy storefronts, and neither do other people less honest than myself.
I don't want to live near sketchy storefronts, and neither do other people less honest than myself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978733
https://youtu.be/_fVl4dGwUrA?t=3m35s
A useful feature (not implemented in that video of X11 SimCity from 1992, but it would be easy to implement now with better graphics and faster computers) is to display a histogram in each of the sliders, where the x-axis is the parameter value, and the y-axis is the number of items of that slider's value (given that all other sliders are at their current value), so you can easily spot clusters and peaks and sparse areas, and you can include or exclude them from the filter by sliding the Min and Max edges across the histogram. So as you adjust one slider, the histograms in the other sliders change to reflect the current "slice" of multi dimensional space with respect to the filter you're adjusting.
Showing a histogram for every filter parameter on each slider gives you a multi-dimensional view of the distribution density of the data, that you can tweak and explore in real time, which helps you figure out how to adjust the filters to find interesting and ignore uninteresting items, and focus in on just the items you want.