While it’s a shitty job for communication purposes, all the necessary information is on the page at least, and the scaling is reasonable. (the 2 million unique visitors at the bottom gives calibration for the y-axis, and the title gives calibration for the x-axis with each tick being a month).
I am for real impressed with Greg Laden’s Blog’s readers, though, because no one simply blurted out the kneejerk “It has inadquate metadata” response. I mean, it does have inadequate metadata, but who isn’t sick of seeing that?
What’s the x-axis? I assume time.
What’s the y-axis? I assume visits.
So there has been less than 10 visits at any given time over an unspecified range of time.
What’s wrong with the graph is that is has no information whatsoever. However, the line rises, so it looks good. Congratulations to ScienceBlogs!
While it’s a shitty job for communication purposes, all the necessary information is on the page at least, and the scaling is reasonable. (the 2 million unique visitors at the bottom gives calibration for the y-axis, and the title gives calibration for the x-axis with each tick being a month).
Who owns ScienceBlogs and how do they plan to monetize their 50% growth rate? An IPO, perhaps? How many shares will the bloggers receive?
JL: Scienceblogs is owned by Seed Media group. They don’t tell us their plans, and we don’t own any shares.
I thought the Y axis was Gazillions.
It is pretty clear that the Y axis is in furlongs
Greg Laden is only in it for the research funding from George Soros.
I demand the raw data of everything on Scienceblogs, and all your computer code, and I want it now!
I also will file a FOIA request that “Dr.” Laden explain to me how the software works.
That chart is a trick to hide the decline in scienceblog hits.
I am for real impressed with Greg Laden’s Blog’s readers, though, because no one simply blurted out the kneejerk “It has inadquate metadata” response. I mean, it does have inadequate metadata, but who isn’t sick of seeing that?