Rynx Sinfar
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Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.10.30 18:48:00 -
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Thanks for posting this and as someone who has not logged into the game in quite some time I am very eager to see more.
That said I'm gonna make fun of you a bit.
First, for the Kills chart... come on man, that axis.
Second, for the K/S chart you may as well be making the lines vibrate with those colors. You have 12 lines and use 4 shades of orange/yellow, 4 shades of blue, 3 shades of black/white, and 1 green. I have to zoom in and constantly check the legend because those blues are so damn similar. The blues are also the ones with the most other lines around them. Maybe distribute those colors a bit better?
Also maybe some grouping? I don't know what it is with you guys but you put things in the most random orders. Grouping colors to types (along with better visibility) would make it much easier to find what I'm looking for. If all the ARs are green I can easily see overall AR performance as well. I'm not saying you need to spend a ton of time on this but maybe have some sort of pattern? I'll skip style critiques for the other charts as I think you get the idea.
Also I know you guys mostly use Google Docs for distributing data but maybe you could try... Google Docs? You may be able to find some successful examples somewhere. It removes a lot of the color variation concern when i can just highlight lines.
Also I love the inclusion of events, however it is hard to determine where the actual "line" is for them. For example Bravo released 10 days before the Expert challenge event, but it is hard to see that fact on the chart.
Which leads me to my next point that you don't need to do all this personally. I just spent a ton of my time working on something based on your data. Clearly you have a community willing to foolishly waste their own time. I've logged in maybe 1 to 2 times in the past half year and I was willing to throw in time. Give us the raw data so anyone digging into the information can have an easier time. I mean the numbers are technically there. I could overlay a grid and get decent estimates pretty quickly. But why make me work for it? Plus it makes things easier with google docs. That said definitely give explanations because yes people are going to fit data to match their own conclusions rather than search for all possible conclusions. I caught myself doing that already. I'm no statistician. I am not even 100% sure if I read the data from the K/S sheet right because of those freaking blues.
As for the data itself, I know ranges were normalized in Bravo so my guess is pre-Bravo Advanced weapon data is way different, but this guy would imply that a lot of action is going on in non-protoland. Even if the data is only Bravo onwards I'd be curious to have a look. I know historically many people who could run proto would not (especially in public matches). I imagine you've looked at the data yourself but I can't help feeling like the representative group for this data can only be a smaller percent of the player population (even if only compared to advanced gear use).
I know in many ways giving us unfiltered data can lead to simple inaccurate statements that start angry mobs (Subdredditors do go on Reddit now and then after all) but then what's the worst that might happen? People getting into a huff over absurd stuff they don't properly understand and complaining on the forums? Oh noooooo....
P.S. Also those yellows. I'm pretty sure I saw this exact picture on the wall in the movie Psycho.
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