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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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