Talk:Sparkline in unicode: Difference between revisions
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:: We know the observed data range, but the range from which this data is drawn may be larger, and the task description doesn't exclude a sparkline which allows some margin, whether small or large.
:: It doesn't, for example, exclude the equally reasonable distribution made by both '''Mathematica''' and '''R''', which both, very sensibly and helpfully, represent the observed values as drawn from a possible range of 0-8000.
:: A significantly stronger horizontal compression of the data
:: Even the tiny margin chosen, perfectly sensibly, by R and Mathematica, already yields a different set of sparkline levels to those you are showing, without any departure from good sense or the terms of reference.
:: The task does not require us to assume that the lowest value observed is invariably and necessarily identical to the the bottom of the scale, or that the highest value observed is invariably and necessarily identical to the top of the scale. (Arguably rare that either or both would be the case, for many data sets). [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 01:30, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
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