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Nice web design but this jumped out at me: (they have 120000 viewpoints): "Wembley stadium has a capacity of 90,000, so our datapoints could fill Wembley once
by RugnirViking 3y ago
Nice web design but this jumped out at me:
(they have 120000 viewpoints):
"Wembley stadium has a capacity of 90,000, so our datapoints could fill Wembley once and still fill another third of the available capacity."
the way this is written adds to confusion rather than enlightens. "another third of the available capacity" makes it sound like there is space left over in wembley i.e. you haven't fully filled it.
I think people know how big 120.000 is, but if you must, just say its more than wembley
- shortrounddev2 3y agoAlso, working in an industry with a lot of data, 120k isn't a lot
- afavour 3y agoCome on, that's a silly statement. There's no point comparing completely context free "amounts of data". If the post was “the incredible difficulty of inserting 120k rows in database” you’d have a point. But it isn’t.
- paxys 3y agoSuch meaningless comparisons also often have the opposite of the desired effect. I read it and went "there are >8 billion people all over the planet, and you can fit all the possible viewports into a single football stadium. Neat!"
- pdabbadabba 3y ago> I think people know how big 120.000 is, but if you must, just say its more than wembley Agreed. And if you must compare to a stadium, why not just pick a bigger stadium? You can pack at least 115,000 into Michigan Stadium, which would get you a lot closer than Wembley. (What's that you say? You've never been to Michigan Stadium? That's probably another reason not to rely on this kind of comparison! I, for example have never been to Wembley and have no idea how big it is.)