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:: Why ? That would, of course, be a perfectly reasonable distribution, but which part of the task description requires it ? |
:: Why ? That would, of course, be a perfectly reasonable distribution, but which part of the task description requires it ? |
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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. |
:: 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. |
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:: It doesn't, for example, exclude the equally reasonable distribution made by both '''Mathematica''' and '''R''', which |
:: It doesn't, for example, exclude the equally reasonable distribution made by both '''Mathematica''' and '''R''', which, very sensibly and helpfully, both represent the observed values as drawn from a possible range of 0-8000. |
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:: A significantly stronger horizontal compression of the data within the sparkline display would also be legitimate, without any contradiction of the task description. |
:: A significantly stronger horizontal compression of the data within the sparkline display would also be legitimate, without any contradiction of the task description. (And with the additional benefit of avoiding logical self-contradiction :-) |
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:: 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. |
:: 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. |
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:: 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) |
:: 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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