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by warpdude 5371 days ago
God, yes. It frustrated me so much that I ended up just copying the data into JS arrays and generating my own charts using the Google Visualization API.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25782/sourceforge.html

Pretty eye-opening. What's clear is that the 'Other' category brings so much uncertainty to the data that it renders the data virtually useless.

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I found stacked area to work really well:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6353242/hn/sourceforge-area-normaliz...

You can get a real sense for how large the 'other' datapoint is by looking at non-normalized view as well:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6353242/hn/sourceforge-area.html

Apparently much of the "other" data are non-browser tools. E.g., curl and wget.

https://twitter.com/#!/rbowen/status/137305778875936771

That's an awesome chart to visualize