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By: Visualizing Commercial Time in an Episode of House | VizWorld.com

Visualizing Commercial Time in an Episode of House | VizWorld.com — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:36:11 +0000

[...] and segment analysis graphs to see what worked best. All of the discussion and examples are on his site.Which do you think is best?via Commercial Time in an Episode of House – Chart Porn. About the [...]

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:10:58 +0000

Dale - Here's my version: Here's Dale's, which I didn't see in my inbox until I'd posted mine: Here's another by Dale, which proves he's as bad a tweaker as I am:

By: DaleW

DaleW — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:02:19 +0000

While I can see a certain advantage to the cascade chart, it’s also visually misleading here — the eye is distracted by the areas, since the actual linear signal is encoded in both the length and width of the rectangles. At first glance, a cascade chart minimizes the quantity of the ads much like the CBO minimizes the future cost of new entitlement programs.

The humble, if segmented, pie chart is at least honest, and depicts the division of the hour just like a familiar clock face.

Rather than a cascade chart, I’d suggest combining the initial simple stacked bar chart with tee markers whose length represents the segment length in minutes. This avoids the distorted area effect, but still shows both dimensions of a cascade chart.

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By: Ed Ferrero

Ed Ferrero — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:25:26 +0000

Hi Jon, Nice post. House demands a bit more analysis, and you need a pie chart :)