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Behold! http://ii.gs/fin-inst-caps-2007-2009.png http://ii.gs/fin-inst-caps-2007-2009.png I just copied the data out of the sheet. Mistakes are mine. A littl

by iigs 18y ago

Behold! http://ii.gs/fin-inst-caps-2007-2009.png http://ii.gs/fin-inst-caps-2007-2009.png I just copied the data out of the sheet. Mistakes are mine. A little less alarming than the circles, for sure.

pygy 18y ago
Indeed. "Cringely can't chart" would have been a better title. He visually squared the values by using quantities as the radius of the circles.
FraaJad 18y ago
That's a good effort. A vertical bar chart with the two measures next to each other is a better representation because you are trying to compare them. If you were to show something cumulative, say contribution of sales of groceries, electronics and clothes towards your daily sales, then, the chart you used is appropriate.
- iigs 18y ago
  You know, I intended to chart blue = new, red = (old - new), so the red bar would be the comparison, the total bar width would be the old value, and the blue would be the new bar (compare in a single line), but I didn't check my data, thus making me guilty of exactly the same sin that spawned the article. :) Updated below. Bahhhhh! Thanks for the catch! http://ii.gs/fin-inst-caps-2007-2009-fix1.png http://ii.gs/fin-inst-caps-2007-2009-fix1.png
FraaJad 18y ago
This might be a better visualisation. http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5507/picture39fl7.png http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5507/picture39fl7.png Note:I used horizontal bars instead of vertical as I suggested in my other comment to remove the redundant labeling.
alecco 18y ago
Mine is bi^Better! http://www.alejosanchez.com/projects/market-capitalization http://www.alejosanchez.com/projects/market-capitalization It's unfinished but it already draws with HTML canvas. Oh, and I did it when it this story was on ;) I stopped at the glueing of info from Yahoo! Finance (got busy with other stuff) but it's all right there. The idea is to let you pick the stock symbol and get a live graph.

by iigs 18y ago

pygy 18y ago

Indeed. "Cringely can't chart" would have been a better title. He visually squared the values by using quantities as the radius of the circles.

FraaJad 18y ago

That's a good effort. A vertical bar chart with the two measures next to each other is a better representation because you are trying to compare them. If you were to show something cumulative, say contribution of sales of groceries, electronics and clothes towards your daily sales, then, the chart you used is appropriate.

iigs 18y ago
You know, I intended to chart blue = new, red = (old - new), so the red bar would be the comparison, the total bar width would be the old value, and the blue would be the new bar (compare in a single line), but I didn't check my data, thus making me guilty of exactly the same sin that spawned the article. :) Updated below. Bahhhhh! Thanks for the catch! http://ii.gs/fin-inst-caps-2007-2009-fix1.png http://ii.gs/fin-inst-caps-2007-2009-fix1.png

FraaJad 18y ago

This might be a better visualisation. http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5507/picture39fl7.png http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5507/picture39fl7.png Note:I used horizontal bars instead of vertical as I suggested in my other comment to remove the redundant labeling.

alecco 18y ago

Mine is bi^Better! http://www.alejosanchez.com/projects/market-capitalization http://www.alejosanchez.com/projects/market-capitalization It's unfinished but it already draws with HTML canvas. Oh, and I did it when it this story was on ;) I stopped at the glueing of info from Yahoo! Finance (got busy with other stuff) but it's all right there. The idea is to let you pick the stock symbol and get a live graph.