What Would Tufte Do?

Что бы делал Tufte?

Блог Эрика Липперта (перевод) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:10:57 GMT

Что это за график? Ответ размещу завтра. UPDATE: Кое-кто уже вывел правильный ответ. (И это было реально

re: What Would Tufte Do?

Sid — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:56:14 GMT

Tufte might suggest choosing "an aspect ratio that centers the absolute values of the slopes of the selected line segments on 45 degrees" (from "Visual Explanations" p. 25). In other words, decrease the height of the y-axis. This might make visual interpretation of trends easier.

re: What Would Tufte Do?

configurator — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:55:01 GMT

Which post did you delete? Sounds interesting!

The one where I said "The Visual Studio Languages team is now hiring, please send me your resume" that I posted 24 hours before senior staff of said team announced that we had no more headcount budget and were therefore in a hiring freeze. I wanted to get the misleading page off the internet as soon as possible. -- Eric

re: What Would Tufte Do?

Zian Choy — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:27:24 GMT

I have a professor who once gave a critical image in an algorithm the wrong name; it cost me at least 3 hours of wasted time (it was a modulo equality).

re: What Would Tufte Do?

Dean Harding — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:56:40 GMT

Heh, that'll teach you for leaving clues in the URL of the image :-)

re: What Would Tufte Do?

Lucas — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:32:05 GMT

Do you count you about page as a blog post?

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jcoehoorn — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:48:56 GMT

So that would make this #499, so tomorrow's answer can be #500?

Correct. Though there is one small seeming discrepancy; this is the 498th available posting on this blog but it is actually the 499th posting. I've deleted one post. -- Eric

re: What Would Tufte Do?

DRBlaise — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:39:04 GMT

I deduced the 20 from the start date of 9/19/2003 on the chart, which is the day after the 20th post.

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DRBlaise — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:59:41 GMT

It can't be just a simple days between posts because the max is around 15 and there have been longer times between posts.

Is it a 20 post rolling average of days between posts?

It is! Nicely done. Did you deduce the 20 somehow, or did you guess? -- Eric

re: What Would Tufte Do?

carlos — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:16:13 GMT

Tufte would sell you an expensive book on labelling charts.

My first guess was blogs readers in thousands per day. But the picture is called "When five hundred posts you reach" so it's more about your posting. It's not posting frequency (which helpfully appears on the right). Is it days between posts?

Holy goodness, I did not expect a winner right out of the gate. Nice job! -- Eric