Comment on Lord of the Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions in the Books

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bramkaandorp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How else can you make it look like a linear grouping?

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    make it look like

    Data processing isn’t about making it look like something unless you are purposefully manipulating it.

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    • bramkaandorp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But that’s what happened here. The x-axis has been unevenly distributed.

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it is logarithmic, it’s just marked linearly.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Logarithmic cannot start at 0 and would have equal spacing between 500, 1000 and 2000.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not equal spacing - 1000-1500 is a bit longer than 1500-2000.

      The graph is almost certainly logarithmic. Only the markings are stupid.

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Every time a number doubles (or increases 10×, or 𝑒×, whatever), it moves a constant distance on a log scale because its base-whatever logarithm increases by a constant amount.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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