> On May 12, 2020, at 7:00 PM, Hartley Horwitz via subsurface > <subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org> wrote: > > I keep saying "candlestick" when I mean to say "box and whiskers". My > mistake. You are spot on correct, the error is mine. > > As much as I use stats in my job, I wonder what the value of knowing the > upper quartile is of my SAC rate or any other parameter that I may be > tracking. For diving planning purposes I'd need to use my max air > consumption after filtering the dive list to get appropriate dives. I don't > think this is providing the average user with useful data. It's got > mathematical pureness to provide a 5-number data visualization assuming the > filtered list provides a statistically significant number of data points. > Other than that, do we care? Should we care? I will send a sample box plot > to a diving friend of mine who's a part-time dive pro. I'd be surprised if > he knows how to interpret it. Histograms are more readily understood but > unfortunately take up a lot of space, and the issue of choosing the bin size > gets challenging as you've discussed when it comes to depth.
Can you create a visual to show us what you would prefer? I'm not sure what you mean here by Histogram? /D
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