August 23, 2015
Barcharts with delusions of grandeur
The cricket graphics system now allows 3-d barcharts projected over the playing field, and casting actual virtual shadows.
Yeah, nah.
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Thought the same and also puzzled by the bar heights — 230 is clearly a bigger score than 269.
9 years ago
Actually, I think it isn’t a barchart at all. It’s a table of the projected total at the current rate and at three other round-number scoring rates.
The first bar is, as you say, obviously not to scale, but the other three are more subtly not to scale.
9 years ago