Graph numbers in stats pages need thousands separator

[Fernando Cassia <fc...@gmail.com>]

While looking at the graph in http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html
it was very difficult for me (besides small screen and poor eyesight) to
see if the numbers were 6 million 60 million or 600 million, because of the
tiny text and lots of zeros without separators for thousands and hundred
thousands.

ie 60,000,000 reads beter than 60000000

FC

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Re: Graph numbers in stats pages need thousands separator

[Fernando Cassia <fc...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Fernando Cassia <fc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I will file a request for enhancement for that 3rd party lib


Done http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/issues/detail?id=499

FC


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During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act
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Revolucionario
- George Orwell

Re: Graph numbers in stats pages need thousands separator

[Fernando Cassia <fc...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org> wrote:

> We're using a 3rd party library for the charts.  I don't see the
> ability to control the number format, other than to enable or disable
> rounding to the nearest integer.  But maybe someone else sees more
> here:
>
> http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeplot/
>
> > ie 60,000,000 reads beter than 60000000
> >
>
> I agree.  Maybe another solution is to rescale the data, so we report
> in units of a million downloads.  So instead of 60000000 we have 60.0?
>

Thanks for the reply Rob.

Glad to know I'm not the only one seeing that. I will file a request for
enhancement for that 3rd party lib on

http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/issues/list

Let's wait... maybe the feature will be implemented sooner rather than
later.

FC


-- 
During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act
Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto
Revolucionario
- George Orwell

Re: Graph numbers in stats pages need thousands separator

[Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Fernando Cassia <fc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While looking at the graph in http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html
> it was very difficult for me (besides small screen and poor eyesight) to
> see if the numbers were 6 million 60 million or 600 million, because of the
> tiny text and lots of zeros without separators for thousands and hundred
> thousands.
>

We're using a 3rd party library for the charts.  I don't see the
ability to control the number format, other than to enable or disable
rounding to the nearest integer.  But maybe someone else sees more
here:

http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeplot/

> ie 60,000,000 reads beter than 60000000
>

I agree.  Maybe another solution is to rescale the data, so we report
in units of a million downloads.  So instead of 60000000 we have 60.0?

-Rob


> FC
>
> --
> During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
> act
> Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto
> Revolucionario
> - George Orwell

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