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Introduction: There was some confusion on my last try , so let me explain one more time . . . The flights I where Hipmunk failed (see here for background) were not obscure itineraries. One of them was a nonstop from New York to Cincinnati; another was from NY to Durham, North Carolina; and yet another was a trip to Midway in Chicago. In that last case, Hipmunk showed no nonstops at all—which will come as a surprise to the passengers on the Southwest Airlines flight I was on a couple days ago! In these cases, Hipmunk didn’t even do the courtesy of flashing a message telling me to try elsewhere. I don’t understand. How hard would it be for the program to automatically do a Kayak search and find all the flights? Hipmunk’s graphics are great, though. Lee Wilkinson reports: Check out the figure below from The Grammar of Graphics. Dan Rope invented this graphic and programmed it in Java in the late 1990′s. We shopped this graph around to Orbitz and Expedia but they weren’t interested. So I
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1 There was some confusion on my last try , so let me explain one more time . [sent-1, score-0.08]
2 The flights I where Hipmunk failed (see here for background) were not obscure itineraries. [sent-4, score-0.287]
3 One of them was a nonstop from New York to Cincinnati; another was from NY to Durham, North Carolina; and yet another was a trip to Midway in Chicago. [sent-5, score-0.065]
4 In that last case, Hipmunk showed no nonstops at all—which will come as a surprise to the passengers on the Southwest Airlines flight I was on a couple days ago! [sent-6, score-0.31]
5 In these cases, Hipmunk didn’t even do the courtesy of flashing a message telling me to try elsewhere. [sent-7, score-0.153]
6 How hard would it be for the program to automatically do a Kayak search and find all the flights? [sent-9, score-0.081]
7 Dan Rope invented this graphic and programmed it in Java in the late 1990′s. [sent-12, score-0.199]
8 We shopped this graph around to Orbitz and Expedia but they weren’t interested. [sent-13, score-0.063]
9 So I [Lee] put it in my Second Edition to point out how ordinary charts could be used as user interfaces to Web sites. [sent-14, score-0.202]
10 I really don’t see why they can’t get together with Expedia or Travelocity or Kayak. [sent-17, score-0.072]
11 Hipmunk has implemented Wilkinson’s graphics idea excellently, these other services have the ability to find the flights that I want . [sent-18, score-0.592]
12 I’m hoping that someone there (or at Expedia or wherever) will pick up on the grid graphics idea. [sent-23, score-0.23]
13 It’s published in a book, so I don’t think they’d need anybody’s permission to try out the idea on their websites. [sent-24, score-0.238]
14 Or maybe they’d have to pay some royalties to Dan Rope and Lee Wilkinson? [sent-25, score-0.082]
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