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Show HN: Tufte's discrete sparklines using D3.js
- jonahx 11y agoCurious what the advantage is (in general) of sparklines over, say, a line of circles with filled in = win and empty = loss? you could use a red fill color for streaks of 4 or more. It seems to me a solution like that would have less clutter and better communicate the data...
- goldenchrome 11y agoA single line of circles allows for less information density. If you force it to have the same information density then you lose a lot of legibility. Secondly, it's possibly harder to see where outliers are. I find this especially true when the vast majority of the dataset is 0, and you're looking for the outlying 1s. See this example I mocked up, where each line has the same number of data points: http://i.imgur.com/xRoY41c.png http://i.imgur.com/xRoY41c.png
- kpil 11y agoWhat does the partial horizontal line indicate in Tufte's example?
- indyz 11y agoLooking at the Bosox 2009 schedule, it looks like the horizontal line indicates home games.
- macintux 11y agoIndeed. 2nd paragraph on the linked page: "This example is from Tufte's site, and was made in collaboration with Adam Schwartz. The presence of a horizontal line represents a home game."
- danielhellier 11y agoWould have been better had you used SVG.