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Posted by Charles Marslett on 01/18/07 03:42
Salesrank is a ranking, that is, 1 is highest, 10000 is a lot lower,
so to make sense in the graphs they plot negative numbers.
The graphs should be done as log plots, at a minimum, since there is a
whole lot less difference between 500 and 501 than between first and
second.....
--Charles
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:59:59 -0800, "Bill's News"
<BillsNews@pcmagic.net> wrote:
>Rob Berryhill wrote:
>> In article
>> <1169055879.811124.313750@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>,
>> asjbiotek@gmail.com says...
>>> With regards to DVD title sales, here is the sales graph from
>>> amazon.com of HD-HDVD versus BLu-ray sales. HD-DVD had a
>>> major
>>> advantage at the beginning (since it started selling players
>>> much
>>> earlier), but you can see that Blu-ray is rising much more
>>> rapidly.
>>>
>>> http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/graphs/salesrank-1-1-recent30.jpg
>>
>> Nice try, dipshit:
>>
>> http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/
>
>I must be reading this chart wrong?
>
>1) Last 24 hours (radio button selection)
>2) Current leader HD-DVD (headline box)
>3) BluRay 743.7, HD-DVD 575.9 (salesrank [sic]: a
>contradiction?)
>4) All the numbers in the Y axis seem to have minus signs before
>them and are in descending absolute value.
>5) According to the key, BR is blue (the larger absolute value)
>and HD is black, thus the numbers must be negative and it's
>measuring returns not sales - which is why HD would then be
>ahead, I guess?
>
>Who is eproductwars? asjbiotek's brother?
>
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