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This is great work but...please redo the charts to start at Zero and end at 50,000 to keep things consistent and prevent Edward Tufte from killing a kitten if h

This is great work but...please redo the charts to start at Zero and end at 50,000 to keep things consistent and prevent Edward Tufte from killing a kitten if he ever sees your charts.

peterquest 15y ago
Ol Ed will kill kittens like nothin. I've seen him do it. He learned it from Napoleon.
peterquest 15y ago
Pffff, anyone who doesn't measure things on a scale of 8747-41947 is a troglodyte.
eric-hu 15y ago
Yeah, the graphs are misleading because of the varying Y scale. I do like the conclusions section, though. It presented some insightful analysis of dyno/worker efficiency >It could be that I’m benchmarking from only 1 server but I’ve seen almost no difference between having 40 dynos or 60. You’ll see one when you receive the bill so be cautious, especially if you use an auto-scale tool. >The same applies to node with cluster, you can do more with 15 dynos running cluster with 3 workers than with 60 dynos of node alone (for a quarter of the price!).
extension 15y ago
Also, you probably want to put the things you are comparing on the same chart.
cromulent 15y ago
I thought Tufte was OK with non-zero baselines: "The urge to contextualize the data is a good one, but context does not come from empty vertical space reaching down to zero, a number which does not even occur in a good many data sets. Instead, for context, show more data horizontally! " -- Edward Tufte, October 18, 2001 http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00003q http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
- maxdemarzi 15y ago
  A non-zero baseline is fine in some cases (line chart of the temperature of a person with a fever for example), but the issues here were multiple charts at varying Y scale starting points, and bar size comparisons of a property that we do want to go to zero (zero failures).

This is great work but...please redo the charts to start at Zero and end at 50,000 to keep things consistent and prevent Edward Tufte from killing a kitten if he ever sees your charts.

peterquest 15y ago

Ol Ed will kill kittens like nothin. I've seen him do it. He learned it from Napoleon.

peterquest 15y ago

Pffff, anyone who doesn't measure things on a scale of 8747-41947 is a troglodyte.

eric-hu 15y ago

Yeah, the graphs are misleading because of the varying Y scale. I do like the conclusions section, though. It presented some insightful analysis of dyno/worker efficiency >It could be that I’m benchmarking from only 1 server but I’ve seen almost no difference between having 40 dynos or 60. You’ll see one when you receive the bill so be cautious, especially if you use an auto-scale tool. >The same applies to node with cluster, you can do more with 15 dynos running cluster with 3 workers than with 60 dynos of node alone (for a quarter of the price!).

extension 15y ago

Also, you probably want to put the things you are comparing on the same chart.

cromulent 15y ago

I thought Tufte was OK with non-zero baselines: "The urge to contextualize the data is a good one, but context does not come from empty vertical space reaching down to zero, a number which does not even occur in a good many data sets. Instead, for context, show more data horizontally! " -- Edward Tufte, October 18, 2001 http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00003q http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

maxdemarzi 15y ago
A non-zero baseline is fine in some cases (line chart of the temperature of a person with a fever for example), but the issues here were multiple charts at varying Y scale starting points, and bar size comparisons of a property that we do want to go to zero (zero failures).