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The charts are lying

Open TWiStErRob opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

See for example: http://www.methodscount.com/?lib=com.vipulasri%3Aticketview%3A1.0.2

Between 1.0.0 and 1.0.2 the method count went from 93 to 125. If you read the charts (without carefully examining the numbers) you can observe that the method count increased 12-fold while the real increase was 1.34-fold. This technique is misleading and widely used by sensationalist media. I'm sure your intention is to provide reliable facts about the method counts about libraries, not to lessen their reputation. Please make the charts display an absolute scale based on 0.

TWiStErRob avatar Feb 05 '18 16:02 TWiStErRob

Hi @TWiStErRob , Thanks for pointing this out. What you are asking for is a different view on the same data. Saying that the charts are lying is quite of a... sensationalist headline, to be honest. For the time being we don't plan to add any new feature to the project, as we mentioned in the disclaimer on the website. Nevertheless, if the way we show that statistics is not in line with your needs, we would be happy to review a pull request with the suggested feature/improvement as soon as you submit it.

sirnicolaz avatar Feb 06 '18 08:02 sirnicolaz