Yes, but that's not the point
A graph with temperature on the Y-axis and time on the X-axis would be referred to as "temperature / time", not "time / temperature", so the title should start with "Find out", not "Fuck around".
*edit* I suppose that "Find out from fucking around" would work.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Tue 3 Jan 2023, 17:09,
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if we're being pendantic, none of what you said is correct
what people choose to put on the x and y axis, and what they title it, is an arbitrary choice of what they find aesthetically pleasing. It's often influenced by the comparative size of the two ranges, and the paper or screen format, such as portrait or landscape, as to what displays more usefully on the x and y axis.
your emphasis on title order implies that there's always continuous relationship between the two data sets, but this depends on what data you're describing. It might be true for temperature over time graph. But, for example, I might be throwing darts at a clock and graphing the hours I hit. The time axis might display a 3 oclock, 7 oclock, etc, depending on what I've hit, with hits on the other axis of the totals: 4, 2, 3 etc. But there is no continuous relationship because we're not treating time as a continuous range. It's not hits/time.
In the above example, the relationship is equal. Fuck around = Find Out, therefore Find Out = Fuck around. the order isn't important
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 3 Jan 2023, 22:42,
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Yeah but that’s a bar chart, not a graph.
The convention for graphs is that the quantity you’re interested in goes on the y-axis. If you need more space for y values then you switch to portrait but the y axis is still the vertical one. If you swap the axes out of some aesthetic whim you’ll just end up with a bunch of confused people wondering why the hell they’re looking at a time over distance graph.
As for being equal, if I walk at 1 m/s and plot the distance travel I’ll also get a nice straight line going through the origin, but the values are still different units and not equal in any meaningful sense.
All this pissing up the wall could have easily been avoided if the guy had stated both his units. As it is I seriously doubt his measurements as I have expended 1.4 decafucks and gained only .8 attoboroughs involving myself on this thread.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 3 Jan 2023, 23:56,
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bar chars are graphs, and have and x and y axis, and I said you were generally right about the convention with time
x and y graphs of the type above can have any unit data or scalar data, like scatter graphs. It could be number of volvos owned against butt plugs owned. they don't have to have a relationship, though in the volvo case it's 1:1
my feeling was that without units it's describing a scale, with 10 being the maximum you could fuck around or find out, and they were equal in that scalar relationship. But this is an assumption, so you're right, 'proportional relationship' would have been a more apt description, which grants you a further .1 attoboroughs and 2 degatysons
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 4 Jan 2023, 1:15,
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