For future work, I think it would be really helpful to allow users to scale
the starplots by a sum of multiple variables, or average of them perhaps.
For example, if I show fatalities for several time periods, it makes nice
little starplots that are ordered by time, and I pick out patterns there,
but then they often are not what they seem because each axis of the starplot
is being calculated relative to each particular variable. So for something
like fatalities it's a little difficult to understand because it might look
really high on one part of the starplot, but in actuality, the number of
fatalities is lower during that period than subsequent periods - it just so
happened that it was *relatively* high during that time period. Since there
are great reasons to use a starplot that always scales each axis
independently, it should be some sort of optional feature.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by frank.hardisty on 21 May 2008 at 2:45
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
frank.hardistyon 21 May 2008 at 2:45