The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings

Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by InclinedPlane on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:08PM (#990234)

This is misleading, giving an impression of growth where there is none.

But there is growth. Perhaps it's the static percentage based graph that's misleading, I find this graph of more or less the same data rather intriguing:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3328/3421742213_db946c5ddf_o....

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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by mbrubeck on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:19PM (#990255)

And since the absolute total has grown close to linearly, the tree rings are not that misleading after all.

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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by jacoblyles on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:27PM (#990278)

Is the market really growing by 2 x PI x the width of one of their slices? That would be quite the coincidence.

Your link is much easier to read.

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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by Periodic on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:49PM (#990310)

The market doesn't have to grow by 2 * PI anything. It's just a constant. Since the radius grows linearly, you can map any linearly growing series of data and you'll find it looks good in this presentation format.

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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by jacoblyles on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:54PM (#990322)

You're right, just need to multiply by some scaling factor, as long as the growth stays linear.

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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by Dilpil on Friday December 11, 2009 @09:41PM (#991034)

So the way to resolve this would be to calculate the total users for each browser each year, and scale that entire ring outwards.

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