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Incomplete months make all graphs look bad / pessimistic #26

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icaria36 opened this issue Jul 9, 2013 · 0 comments
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Incomplete months make all graphs look bad / pessimistic #26

icaria36 opened this issue Jul 9, 2013 · 0 comments

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icaria36 commented Jul 9, 2013

This is a problem that becomes more visible when you see the graphs for the past 12 months, or shorter periods:

Your graphs are accurate: today is July 9 and therefore the graph shows the data of the month acquired so far. This approach has a problem, though: all graphs look almost always with a unhappy ending compared to the previous, complete month.

A couple of ideas to reflect better what is going on:

Given three elements:

  • Area of results: the part painted orange.
  • Line of results: the top of that area.
  • Projection - currently missing.

Do this:

  1. Show the length corresponding to the days of the month. If its July 2nd there is almost no month visible. If it's 15th then you see half month. Etc.
  2. Keep the line of results as is (0% transparency) but fill the are with a % of transparency corresponding to the day of the month (50% on the 15th, or fine-tune to whatever curve of % makes sense visually).
  3. Create a projection line showing an estimate of results considering the current daily average * the days left until the end of the month.

I haven't prototyped anything, but I believe this might reflect a lot better what is going on with the project these days.

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