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Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Can we not just ask pg for the data?

Might not be entirely accurate, I'm currently in China but will show up as being from the UK or US because of my VPN.

It will probably be more accurate than doing this poll manually (many people won't submit their data).

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only mention it because I learned the difference yesterday, but that is a bar graph, not a histogram.

If anyone's curious (like I was), a histogram has a continuous variable for it's x-axis, the bars on a histogram correspond to bins of the continuous variable. E.g. 1-10, 11-20, 21-30. In a bar graph, the x-axis is usually a discontinuous variable, typically types, with no specifically meaningful sort order, e.g. in this case, countries. Also, by convention, histograms have no spaces between bars to represent the con…

You're right. Seeing as I've been using the term 'histogram' in place of 'bar chart' all the time, that's some life-changing information right there.
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