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I wonder which graphing library they use for creating these. It looks like Microsoft office but better designed. Google charts? And I wonder how they handle st
by zackzackzack 14y ago
I wonder which graphing library they use for creating these. It looks like Microsoft office but better designed. Google charts?
And I wonder how they handle statistics. They are just providing graphics and trendlines as far as I can tell, and encouraging users to draw conclusions. They are capturing the entire population they are sampling from, but even then it feels like there might be some pitfalls in the types of conclusions that might be drawn by an untrained web property owner.
Edit: deleted a repeated sentence.
- joshfraser 14y agoWe get that question a lot. The graphing library we use is Highcharts. We think a lot about the question of how we present the data. We'll try and help users come to the right conclusions when we can, but the end of the day, it's just a tool and it's up to our users what they do with the data.
- zackzackzack 14y agoWhat do you think of Highcharts? Why pay for the library instead of using something like d3.js?
- joshfraser 14y agoWe get enough compliments on Highcharts that it was well worth the money. It's an easy decision as the price isn't prohibitive for a business.
- zackzackzack 14y agoOh, yeah, that makes sense. I forget sometimes that everybody on earth isn't a data nerd and that Microsoft Office is used globally to do trillions of dollars of business every day. Silly me. Thanks for the reality check.