Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Dave Hoover wrote: > > Inspired by Adam Spiers' idea to chart golfer scores over time, I > > hacked together the "PGAS Charts" page using Graph::Plot (I couldn't > > get any other Graphing modules installed). > > > > http://perlgolf.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/PGAS/chart.cgi
Argh! Where's your sense of laziness? Duplicated effort sucks ... Anyway, the interface is pretty sweet, but can I humbly suggest that the best results might be obtained by merging your CGI bits with my graph-drawing bits? Here's the URL of the latest version again, in case anyone missed it. http://adamspiers.org/upload/tpr02.png > Nice. But can I suggest that it should be a step function? Draw a line > rightwards from each submission, and drop vertically when the next > submission comes in. Also draw a line rightwards from the most recent > submission to the current time. I thought about that too, but decided not to bother, because not everyone submits every solution they come up with. (For the referees' sake, I hope noone does!) That means that people's scores can be steadily decreasing, even though the PGAS system doesn't know about it. Therefore, the existing interpolation is justified. Might be worth having both modes as an option, I suppose, although I'm not sure how well the various charting programs support step functions. > Oh, and I don't think golfers with only one submission appear at all > at the moment. That's a feature :-)
