Bar graph of absolute percentages before & after overlaid. For example, a darker outline rectangle for 2023 and a lighter filled rectangle for 2024. Or just two rectangles next to each other, as lots of business charts do.
So it would still be a bar graph. I thought your argument was that it wasn’t the right type of graph for this dataset, not that you disagreed with the dataset used in the first place. I agree that the one you proposed is easier to understood, but I don’t really agree that using it like they did is improper. It is certainly useful if you want to save space.
Let’s say 2 people used TempleOS, Symbian, MS-DOS or some other extremely weird thing to load the website in 2023 and then 42 in 2024 because it gets referenced in a porn video or something. The relative increase bar of 2000% would dwarf the changes in major OSs’ usage even though the absolute number is miniscule in comparison. Yes, they get lumped into “other” but this kind of discrepancy is already happening with the somewhat exaggerated Linux increase.
I don’t like how the bar graphs, obviously supposed to show percentage points, actually show relative percent change.
What graph works better to show relative percentage change?
Bar graph of absolute percentages before & after overlaid. For example, a darker outline rectangle for 2023 and a lighter filled rectangle for 2024. Or just two rectangles next to each other, as lots of business charts do.
So it would still be a bar graph. I thought your argument was that it wasn’t the right type of graph for this dataset, not that you disagreed with the dataset used in the first place. I agree that the one you proposed is easier to understood, but I don’t really agree that using it like they did is improper. It is certainly useful if you want to save space.
Let’s say 2 people used TempleOS, Symbian, MS-DOS or some other extremely weird thing to load the website in 2023 and then 42 in 2024 because it gets referenced in a porn video or something. The relative increase bar of 2000% would dwarf the changes in major OSs’ usage even though the absolute number is miniscule in comparison. Yes, they get lumped into “other” but this kind of discrepancy is already happening with the somewhat exaggerated Linux increase.
Yeah, that’s a good point.