Talk:Sparkline in unicode: Difference between revisions
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:: Many (probably most) charts leave some margin to left and right, allowing for a scale of possible values that is larger than the range of observed values. Perfectly resonable, and it doesn't require all 8 buckets to be equally full.
:: Mathematica and R are graphing the data on the scale 0..8000. That's at least as reasonable as your approach (mathematically a little more simple and coherent too, as it happens), and it would be just as sensible (possibly even more) to follow their lead as yours. Both approaches are fine.
::: The '''point''' is that your presentation of the 0..7999 test as a reliable diagnostic instrument which 'should' yield a unique pattern with only 3 levels is '''misleading'''. It can produce false negatives, and doubtless false positives too. The Mathematica and R approach, equally correctly
::: What you are suggesting is cetainly one way, but '''not''' the only way.
::: The task is '''not''' to fill buckets evenly
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