Web browser market share of all times visualized

Re:Web browser market share of all times visualized by cinfinity on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @04:34AM (#4941846)

This is not a "visualization".

It would be far better to do line plots of each browser's market share as a function of time, distinguishing different browsers by color.

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Re:Web browser market share of all times visualized by hammondos on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @04:44AM (#4941871)

Agreed - a bunch of pie charts (not great communicating info at the best of times) could hardly be called a "visualization" in the modern sense of creating a graphic that makes data easily understandable, visually appealing & useful

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Re:Web browser market share of all times visualized by hmbg on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @05:07AM (#4941929)

Half-agreed. A stacked area chart would be perfect for this.

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Re:Web browser market share of all times visualized by mxfh on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @05:38AM (#4942006)

I would take pretty much anything with a temporal axis over these pie-charts. Also I would favor stacked bars with optional trend lines over area charts in the case of countable annual data like this.

After which amount of data points is it considered recommended to switch to interpolated line/area charts?

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