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Val(r)u(l)e (feddit.nl)

submitted 3 weeks ago by lnxtx@feddit.nl to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 58 points 3 weeks ago

I'd be nice to have a color legend next to the y-axis of hue

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Or even better, change the color of the points and lines to match the associated hue.

[-] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago

That'd be nice.

90 and 120 are rolling through the greens. Are posters mostly green? That seems odd to me.

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 17 points 3 weeks ago

The problem is that averaging hue makes no sense at all because hue is not a longest scale.

If you take a red poster (0) and a blue poster (240), it averages to green. Or take red (0) and red (359), averaging to cyan (180).

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

The average of 0° and 359° is obviously 359.5°.

it's a radial scale.

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 9 points 3 weeks ago

By that logic, the average of red and cyan is both purple and lime. Still useless.

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not if there is a clear trend. If most movie posters are blue, three average will be blue.

But i agree, it is useless if there is no clear trend.

[-] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't trust someone who tried to visualize hue like this to make that calculation correctly.

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

You know what, I completely agree.

[-] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

It would have made more sense if they had shown the distribution of hue as a polar graph and just had one every decade to show how it changes over time.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

yeah that part of the graph is completely useless to people who haven't memorised the exact degrees of the scale, which is most people, even most artists

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 weeks ago

Be nice to have the y axis start at zero so we could get a realistic sense of the fluctuations.

Yes yes this is pedantic for a chart about movie posters, but we’re all pretty desensitised to disinformation; feels useful to train myself to recognise it & speak out about it. The y axis isn’t visible, so the chart is misleading 🤷‍♂️

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

The values changed so little compared to the full spectrum it wouldn't make sense.
You're not comparing to zero, but relative to values over time.
I agree with how it's presented.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Zooming out a little would at least show that the changes are minor.

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 9 points 3 weeks ago

I'd love to see this for luminance. I know my vision is getting worse, but I cannot see the goddamn Batman or anything else made in the last five years