Blaze (he/him) to [email protected]English • 14 days agoLord of the Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions in the Booksfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down19file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•14 days agoThe scale is neither linear nor logarithmic. What?
minus-square@bramkaandorplinkEnglish3•14 days agoHow else can you make it look like a linear grouping?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•14 days ago make it look like Data processing isn’t about making it look like something unless you are purposefully manipulating it.
minus-square@bramkaandorplinkEnglish1•3 days agoBut that’s what happened here. The x-axis has been unevenly distributed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•13 days agoBecause the point isn’t to compare 2 characters, but to see how one character performs in the books and in the movies. And for that, it doesn’t matter. But they could have used a bar graph instead.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoWell, I’d like to know if Arwen’s screentime/mention ratio is 2x or 3x that of the Frodo baseline. This arbitrary scale makes it impossible. It would not hurt to add more values to the axes, and perhaps a faint grid.
The scale is neither linear nor logarithmic. What?
How else can you make it look like a linear grouping?
Data processing isn’t about making it look like something unless you are purposefully manipulating it.
But that’s what happened here. The x-axis has been unevenly distributed.
Because the point isn’t to compare 2 characters, but to see how one character performs in the books and in the movies.
And for that, it doesn’t matter. But they could have used a bar graph instead.
Well, I’d like to know if Arwen’s screentime/mention ratio is 2x or 3x that of the Frodo baseline. This arbitrary scale makes it impossible. It would not hurt to add more values to the axes, and perhaps a faint grid.