Comment on Turn Hacker News' headlines & comments into ambient histogramsparentComments−elzrOP17yAh, sorry! Such an oversight! (You get so involved in a project you think it's all natural...)The histograms are:For Reddit, they are of a headline's votes, of a headline's number of comments, and of a comment's votes.For Delicious, they are of the numbers of users that have bookmarked a link, or applied a tag.For Digg, of a headline's diggs, of a headline's number of comments, and of a comment's diggs.For Hacker News, of a headline's upvotes, of a headline's number of comments, and of a comment's upvotes.For StackOverflow, of a question's views, of an answer's votes, of the number of users that have applied a tag, of a user's reputation score.It's hopefully all obvious once you install the script.Adding larger versions of the screenshots in a sec..−imp17yA histogram shows a distribution of values. This just looks like a bar graph. Still useful, but I don't see how it's a histogram.−elzrOP17yAh, I see, I didn't even know there was a difference, thanks for pointing it out. I've always like the word "bar graph" more (it's more transparent), so bar graphs they are now!−breck17yi like it
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Ah, sorry! Such an oversight! (You get so involved in a project you think it's all natural...)
The histograms are:
For Reddit, they are of a headline's votes, of a headline's number of comments, and of a comment's votes.
For Delicious, they are of the numbers of users that have bookmarked a link, or applied a tag.
For Digg, of a headline's diggs, of a headline's number of comments, and of a comment's diggs.
For Hacker News, of a headline's upvotes, of a headline's number of comments, and of a comment's upvotes.
For StackOverflow, of a question's views, of an answer's votes, of the number of users that have applied a tag, of a user's reputation score.
It's hopefully all obvious once you install the script.
Adding larger versions of the screenshots in a sec..
A histogram shows a distribution of values. This just looks like a bar graph. Still useful, but I don't see how it's a histogram.
Ah, I see, I didn't even know there was a difference, thanks for pointing it out. I've always like the word "bar graph" more (it's more transparent), so bar graphs they are now!
i like it