<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 13, 2020, at 2:24 PM, Arjun Salyan <<a href="mailto:arjun@macports.org" class="">arjun@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thank you for the mockup and the inputs.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://macports.silentfox.tech/port/gnuplot/stats/?days=365" class="">http://macports.silentfox.tech/port/gnuplot/stats/?days=365</a> my version of it does not look as good as yours probably due to a larger amount of data.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you</div><img width="0" height="0" class="mailtrack-img" alt="" style="display:flex" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/afb168e11aba99f90db461af94624efbb19ad01a.png?u=4480800"></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Thinking about it a little more, I would suggest using an area chart something like this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Ch4dwgNNu7Nv5wGrzFguDV7m5v3prwJ/view?usp=sharing" class="">https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Ch4dwgNNu7Nv5wGrzFguDV7m5v3prwJ/view?usp=sharing</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Using areas rather than stacked bars emphasizes the trends in the data (presenting it as changing uniformly throughout the month). In this chart, it highlights how the installed base of a port migrates to a new version over time (with some holdouts).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Conversely, I would suggest the that “Port installations by month” chart should be a bar chart rather than an area chart. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note that I wasn’t trying to suggest that we need a table of numeric percentages alongside the graphical representation. I think the table will be redundant with a good chart.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, a quibble on the word “users”. More than a few of our users administer several systems that are all reporting statistics*. We know how many systems are submitting stats but we really don’t know the number of individual users that represents.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for ‘sweating the details’ on this project!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Craig</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* In fact, if MacPorts is installed in more than one prefix on a system, couldn’t each prefix be submitting statistics independently?</div></body></html>