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"Projectile Data Lab" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
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Improvements to data visibility in Projectile Sampling Distributions #300

Closed matthew-blackman closed 5 months ago

matthew-blackman commented 5 months ago

In https://github.com/phetsims/projectile-data-lab/issues/299, Kelly Findley and @catherinecarter brought up the fact that in the standalone Projectile Sampling Distributions (PSD) sim, the horizontal range histogram is no longer tied to the other screens that appear in PDL. Since the PSD sim will have less spread (because it is plotting means), it makes sense to consider ways that we can make the data appear larger. This will improve students' ability to assess the shape of the distributions in greater detail.

The following ideas were discussed:

  1. Restricting the min and max horizontal values on the PSD histogram.
  2. Making the min and max horizontal values on the PSD histogram customizable (this would require a cost-benefit comparison)
  3. Considering the PhET-IO customizability of the launchers and launcher mechanisms
  4. We don't want to make the histogram scaling launcher-specific (like the histogram thumbnails), so that launchers can be compared.
matthew-blackman commented 5 months ago

This is being addressed in https://github.com/phetsims/projectile-data-lab/issues/304. This issue can be closed.