Quoting: ChuckDaniels87

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: ChuckDaniels87I really like this idea. I've got just one suggestion: use a better colour palette. There are some palettes used by other libs (matplotlib, seaborn,...) that could give a more homogeneous and nicer look to the graphs:

- husl (link [External Link])

- ColorBrewer (link [External Link])

- cubelix (link [External Link])

There is interesting info about palettes in matplotlib documentation (link [External Link]).

The colours (apart from Intel, AMD and Nvidia which are manually done to the vendors known colouring) are built into the script. It may not be that easy to override the defaults with a new set.

You just have to create a custom palette in SVGGraph (check this link [External Link]).
Taking [8-Class Set1 palette in ColorBrewer](http://colorbrewer2.org/?type=qualitative&scheme=Set1&n=8 [External Link]), you just have to copy the HEX color codes:

 
$colours = array(
    '#e41a1c',
    '#377eb8',
    '#4daf4a',
    '#984ea3',
    '#ff7f00',
    '#ffff33',
    '#a65628',
    '#f781bf'
 );
 $graph->Colours($colours);

Actually, is it possible to find one with 10 items, as our graphs on the page will have a max of 10, not 8 you provided there. Or else we will end up with duplicate bar colours for two of them.

Edit: Turns out that site lets you select different numbers, awesome, new colours will go up tonight :)

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Quoting: khalismurHey Liam

Good job. Looks amazing.

Maybe it's time to separate Manjaro from Arch? It's a spin off yeah but it is also a beast of its own right now (well ahead of Arch in distrowatch) . I'd guess maybe even more users than Arch itself. Otherwise, join Ubuntu and Debian again ;-)

Manjaro and Arch are already different items (all the data is using the GOL Distro dropdown, you can see for yourself).

Edit: in fact, you can already see they both show up on the graph.

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Slick thanks, didn't dive into that part of the docs yet will give that a go later when I put in the privacy option for the profile bit :)

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Okay point well made. I will include an option for people to hide their PC info from their profiles.

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Quoting: BeamboomLots of stuff

You have spent way too long playing this game ;), own up, how many minifigures did you buy for it :P

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Quoting: ChuckDaniels87I really like this idea. I've got just one suggestion: use a better colour palette. There are some palettes used by other libs (matplotlib, seaborn,...) that could give a more homogeneous and nicer look to the graphs:

- husl (link [External Link])

- ColorBrewer (link [External Link])

- cubelix (link [External Link])

There is interesting info about palettes in matplotlib documentation (link [External Link]).

The colours (apart from Intel, AMD and Nvidia which are manually done to the vendors known colouring) are built into the script. It may not be that easy to override the defaults with a new set.

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Quoting: noinformationhereGood work. I can see that you will be adding more features as you go.

No user information (not even your username) is gathered for it, so the results are completely anonymous (honestly they are!).

You may not be collecting this info, but it is freely available on the user page and can be scraped by anyone on the internet. Personally, I won't enter my info into this form unless I can prevent it from being public. Just a thought, if you want to get more people to participate (anonymously).

I appreciate the intentions, though!

Yes, profiles can be looked at of course, but I am talking purely in regards to this page right now. The information behind the stats page does not store user_id's, usernames or anything. Only the overall counter for each bit.

Anyone who is that worried that their profiles are being scraped wouldn't enter anything anyway. To be honest, I am surprised anyone that wary is even signed up on here at all.

As said before, this is just the start of the system.

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Quoting: Stupendous ManIt would be nice if the amount of RAM on the graph was ordered numerically by amount, instead of number of users with X amount. Makes for easier comparison :-)

I could look at adding an option in to adjust the sorting on that graph, it's probably the only graph that would need it.

Will reply to any others later/tomorrow, it's nearly half 10PM here and I haven't eaten dinner yet...

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Re-generated with latest results. Added in a gaming machine type graph for what people are using. Thought Laptop use would be higher, but we will see when more fill it out.

Quoting: NelI wonder how you'll deal with temporarily inactive or abandonned accounts, I think of all those users who registered, filled whole computer info and then never returned back here. Some kind of zombie statistics.

Will there still be a manual validation each month? What about special question as we had on almost each survey?

We store a date and time for last logins, it won't capture results for people who haven't come back in a while. Have yet to code that in, as the entire system is so new it won't matter for now. I agree it's needed though.

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Quoting: soulsourceThe page looks great! The only thing one might criticize is, that it will only show data of registered GoL visitors, while the survey could in principle be filled in by anyone who got the link. We'll see if this has significant influence on the sample size.

This is only the start of the new system, there will eventually be a monthly page for anonymous users to fill a survey. This is much easier to do for now to shoe actual results right away as a proof of concept.

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