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By: nb

nb — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:04:11 +0000

That’s what I was thinking of, but looking at it it’s obviously not as useful since you can only really eyeball the lowest series (also, histogram bins are truncated by definition afaict.)

I think some kind of step chart showing frequencies would be the best of all possible worlds – but if you were to use Google Charts for that, you’d have to hax up your own via cht=lxy as it doesn’t seem like there’s an option for cht=lc.

By: chronic

chronic — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:08:35 +0000

Something like this, perhaps?

I’m not sure if that’s the right way to do a stacked bar graph, seems to make the vertical scale kind of massive, and it’s sort of difficult to compare between the different data sets.

Thoughts?

By: chronic

chronic — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:22:24 +0000

You’re right, and that’s essentially what I was going for – the data is quantized into 10k blocks. The reason I used a line graph was because I couldn’t figure out a way to get the google chart API to nicely present multiple data sets on a bar graph. I’ve had another go at it and this looks better; though perhaps a bit cluttered:

As a bonus this includes the games we played last week since they are now on the armory. I’ve also changed the buckets so the damage is rounded to the nearest 10k rather than truncated, so the first bar is 0-5000 damage, the second is 5000-15000, etc. I don’t know if that’s the most sensible way to do it.

I’m definitely no statistician so I’m keen to hear any other criticisms you have.

(I believe gchart has a stacked bars option which I will have a look at when I get some more time)

By: nb

nb — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:47:42 +0000

On data visualisation: I think what you want here are histograms, with stacked bars and maybe 10k buckets.

On 3s team names: Next season I think it should be “Queueing Into Cleave” – in the hope that, like “Our Shaman Has No Gear”, it eventually becomes ironic as opposed to painfully true.

On Flawless Victories: Or some 2.7k MMR mage overextends on Dalaran, and explodes in a garotte silence.

On anagrams: So I went looking today; “Plate Nadir” struck me as pretty accurate in the case of Ret Paladins (though I’m sure “Lard Pantie” would go down much better on the forums, hurr hurr.). And I think “Worried Occult Tanks” sums Destruction Warlocks up pretty well. That or “Tard Clickers Won Out,” fffff.