Misleading Activity Graphs

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Tartara
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Misleading Activity Graphs

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Hours where there are no entries are ignored when graphing:

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/activity.php?serverid=63

There is a straight line drawn from the hour zero value (723) to the hour seven value (138) even though the entries (and thus average) is zero during hours 1-6. This gives the misleading impression that horde activity is higher than alliance activity around hours 4-5.

I can kinda see why you did it that way - with no submissions in a specific hour, the assumption is that it's an average of the surroundings hours - but I think that graphing the zero values would give a better picture overall.

(And yes, I should log on my Lothar hordie more often, I know)

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the oringnal Hybuir was first rolled on Lothar. Fun fact.

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Post by Rollie »

I could do bar graphs instead of the line graph as well. I just chose the line graph as it seemed to give the best result.
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