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It'd be nice if the graphics made it clear what "sentiment: yellow" meant. A good graphic is its own summary. Especially since apparently the sentiment values a

It'd be nice if the graphics made it clear what "sentiment: yellow" meant. A good graphic is its own summary. Especially since apparently the sentiment values are in an incredibly narrow range: - what do the colors represent? - are marginally higher numbers marginally better/worse sentiment, statistically significantly better/worse sentiment, etc? - what does "sentiment" actually measure? ("sentiment related" adjectives in posts, vs. "objective" adjectives?) This is basically just detached data that's getting upvoted because... it's... pretty? The page as posted has literally no information, it just shows uninterpretable data that no one can draw any conclusions from.

maniflames 6y ago
Right? Effectively these graphs do not communicate anything other than the numbers of comments on big tech companies over time.
rightbyte 6y ago
Ye quite worthless graphs without explaination. Also the sentiment and the amount of comments should just be two lines not colorcoded bars. xyy-plot. How do you even measure sentiment? The amount of curse words?
- ardy42 6y ago
  > Ye quite worthless graphs without explaination. Also the sentiment and the amount of comments should just be two lines not colorcoded bars. xyy-plot. You can kind of infer that blue means bad and yellow means good with some background info: Facebook: yellower > quote bluer, starting around 2017 (coincides with a lot of criticism of disinformation spreading there/Cambridge Analytica). MSFT: bluer -> yellower, guessing this is linked to them being less hostile to open source, etc. Amazon: yellower -> quite bluer Google: yellower -> bluer > How do you even measure sentiment? The amount of curse words? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
dmarchand90 6y ago
I would just have one graph with all the companies. You're using one graph per company to show both sentiment and number of mentions, but only the former is interesting. Like others have written bar plot is not ideal here, xy-curve plot would be much clearer.

maniflames 6y ago

Right? Effectively these graphs do not communicate anything other than the numbers of comments on big tech companies over time.

rightbyte 6y ago

Ye quite worthless graphs without explaination. Also the sentiment and the amount of comments should just be two lines not colorcoded bars. xyy-plot. How do you even measure sentiment? The amount of curse words?

ardy42 6y ago
> Ye quite worthless graphs without explaination. Also the sentiment and the amount of comments should just be two lines not colorcoded bars. xyy-plot. You can kind of infer that blue means bad and yellow means good with some background info: Facebook: yellower > quote bluer, starting around 2017 (coincides with a lot of criticism of disinformation spreading there/Cambridge Analytica). MSFT: bluer -> yellower, guessing this is linked to them being less hostile to open source, etc. Amazon: yellower -> quite bluer Google: yellower -> bluer > How do you even measure sentiment? The amount of curse words? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis

dmarchand90 6y ago

I would just have one graph with all the companies. You're using one graph per company to show both sentiment and number of mentions, but only the former is interesting. Like others have written bar plot is not ideal here, xy-curve plot would be much clearer.