Statistics Reloaded.

[Davide DB]

Hi guys

Do you remember I sketched tons mockups for statistics maybe two years ago?

On 6 July 2017 at 22:18, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
> Willem,
>
>
> Thanks for your feedback, I'll play more with this on the weekend. I do
> believe that your ideas are nice and I'll experiment with them. If you want
> I can give you my branch for you to test and experiment too.
>
> Actually, considering that I'm by no means a good math person, do you mind
> to create mockups for all possible statistics that you can think Subsurface
> should provide?
>
> This will help me a lot.
>
> Tomaz
>
> On Thu 6. Jul 2017 at 22:11, Willem Ferguson
> <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
>>
>> Tomaz,
>>
>> There are a few things that can be changed to make it much more efficient.
>>
>> There are too many colours. Normally a bar graph like you show would be
>> used to indicate different exclusive classes with each colour. For instance,
>> your bar graph could indicate Open-circuit dives, CCR dives and snorkle/free
>> dives. An OC dive cannot be a CCR dive. etc. So the colours need to be
>> simplified.
>>
>> A bar graph like you indicated are not normally used to depict
>> Min/Mean/Max. Please notice the term "Mean", not "Average". "Mean" is the
>> statistically correct term: the term "Average" is not a recognised
>> statistical term because it can be on of many different meanings. Look at
>> the example that I quickly threw together as attached. This is the sort of
>> graph that is used to indicate Min/Mean/Max. Only a single colour is used
>> for one graph, because Min, Mean and Max all refer to the same variable, in
>> this case either SAC or Depth.
>>
>> In the case of Depth it would also make sense to have the depth on the
>> Y-axis increase from the top to the bottom.
>>
>> You have no idea how this work of yours is going to contribute to the
>> visual appeal of Subsurface! It is amazing. Thank you.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> willem
>>
>
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