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Re: Polling Top Sellers
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:48:28 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
> want to bog down the server or anything. But anyway, here's a newer snapshot
> with deliniations for the day:
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> http://www.suave.net/~dave/images/tmp/tps_20070326_1708.png
Very, very nice. I am appreciating your ability to add content without
chartjunk!
> > > * Oh, for the ones that drop out of the list, perhaps you could ID them on
> > > the left side of the plot...
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> Yeah, I'm not sure how to handle that, really. I had thought of just skipping
> them all together, but it looked like some big empty voids now and again. And it
> works ok to put the name on the left hand side... except when it's something
> that came up from the *bottom* and not necessarily the left. So far, the
> solution that I've thought of is that I'll try and examine each "white" bar for
> a long stretch of uninterrupted movement. If it's got it, it'll label it *right*
> there on the graph, and if it doesn't have such a plateau, it won't get
> labelled. But who knows how that'll turn out. It might look cluttery or start
> getting in the way of the rest of the data. Hard to say.
Labelling things right on the plot is definitely the way to go, if it can be
done without the clutter. You might be able to make the graphic bigger so as to
allow more room between, or even construct the line out continually repeating,
using really small letters, the name of the item.
For those that start and stop off the chart, you *could* label them where they
exit or enter, ie, at the bottom! Maybe tilting the label would allow them to
fit...
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> Right now I'm thinking that I may make it such that you can say "show me what it
> was like on day X", or "highlight set Y", or something. Something a little more
> configurable. But first, I've got to make it work smoothly.
This would be most cool and I would love to see it!
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| (...) Yeah, the clutter is the hard part. I've been toying with the idea of just streamlining the data a lot more. Right now, the data is pretty much fully represented. But as I collect more data, it'll become rather meaningless. Something that had (...) (18 years ago, 26-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Huh, that must explain it! The thing that dropped off was "My Custom Design" (which has JUST now creeped back into the ranks!). I didn't know it actually was offline, but that would make sense given the dropoff. (...) Well, keep in mind that (...) (18 years ago, 26-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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