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Re:The OS Wars: We Have A Winner by warpdude on Thursday November 17, 2011 @01:48PM (#3248713)
God, yes. It frustrated me so much that I ended up just copying the data into JS arrays and generating my own charts using the Google Visualization API.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25782/sourceforge.html

Pretty eye-opening. What's clear is that the 'Other' category brings so much uncertainty to the data that it renders the data virtually useless.

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Re:The OS Wars: We Have A Winner by bradleyland on Thursday November 17, 2011 @02:38PM (#3248914)
I found stacked area to work really well:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6353242/hn/sourceforge-area-normaliz...

You can get a real sense for how large the 'other' datapoint is by looking at non-normalized view as well:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6353242/hn/sourceforge-area.html

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Re:The OS Wars: We Have A Winner by bradleyland on Thursday November 17, 2011 @06:18PM (#3249695)
Apparently much of the "other" data are non-browser tools. E.g., curl and wget.

https://twitter.com/#!/rbowen/status/137305778875936771

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Re:The OS Wars: We Have A Winner by thenextcorner on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:12AM (#3250682)
Follow up conversation at: http://www.bradlanders.com/2011/11/17/visualizing-sourceforg...
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Re:The OS Wars: We Have A Winner by thenextcorner on Thursday November 17, 2011 @01:51PM (#3248723)
That's an awesome chart to visualize
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