On 2020/05/14 18:24, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
Willem, those are some very strong statements that initially provoked
a rather negative reaction in me. Calling someone else's proposal "not
up to modern standards" feels borderline insulting.
As a matter of fact, yes we can show vertical labels. They are also a
complete pain to read. I would argue that the readability of a
horizontal chart is actually much better than the vertical one that
you so strongly argue for.
I did a quick survey of some of the other dive logs that have screen
shots of their statistics pages up on their web sites. And they seem
to be about equally split between the two different approaches.
I apologise unreservedly if I appeared insulting to anyone.
To me in the end this doesn't really matter. I don't think I'd ever
use this other than to test that it works. Which is true for two
thirds, actually, more likely 80% of the features in Subsurface.
What I do care about is that we continue to build something that stays
maintainable, stays usable, and serves the need of a broad user base.
That's why I refuse the frequent attempts to turn Subsurface into an
asset management tool. And that's why I will gently push back to
attempts to turn Subsurface into tool for statisticians. There are
great tools for those purposes. Use them.
I attach a suggestion that, to me, what it does is to actually plot the
raw data points and show what the mean value for each dataset is (red
bar). This is much more usable than a mere report of min, mean, max. For
instance, for the wetsuit dataset, the bottom two points are probably
outliers (possibly erroneous cylinder pressures or cylinder type entered
into the dive log?) and one might consider not using these to interpret
the data. For wetsuit, it appears that SAC mostly varies between 13 and
21, and that the min and max values indicated are not necessarily so
useful. For the semidry suit data, the data points are much more
cohesive and the min and max values plotted are possibly more useful. It
depends on the person looking at the graph to use the min and max as
plotted, or to use some other way of interpretation. This would provide
a good impression of the distribution of the SAC data for each suit type
and still provide mean, max and min values. And I think most persons
should be able to interpret the diagram easily?
Kind regards,
willem
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