Yes. It would have been better to publish the chart, and then on this line: > What conclusions can we draw from this? ...answer the question with "None" and t

Yes. It would have been better to publish the chart, and then on this line: > What conclusions can we draw from this? ...answer the question with "None" and then explain why. Following that with a deeper analysis of the myriad explanations for this data could have been interesting (e.g. what kinds of projects are strongly correlated with larger commits? How much does that vary by language and age of the project?), but unsupported conclusions are not.