Question about Fargo that only Mike Page has access to the data to answer

AtLarge said:
No, no. It was highly scientific. I enlarged the chart as much as I could on my screen. The distance from 0 to 500 on the left axis was then 83 mm on my screen. The height of the first pink bar was 37 mm. (37/83) x 500 = 223.

[Maybe that's "the air."]
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I like the cut of your ruler, if you don't mind my saying so, but since the original data were quantized (by pixels in the image) it is better to use that quantization to find the number range probably represented by the image.

I find 62 pixels per 500 counts or about 8 counts per pixel. The bar in question is 28 pixels high, which gives an estimated count of 225+-4. That says that 223 is not necessarily a wrong guess.

Bob <--- who in a previous life spent many happy hours picking data values off graphs and drawing more graphs
 
AtLarge said:
No, no. It was highly scientific. I enlarged the chart as much as I could on my screen. The distance from 0 to 500 on the left axis was then 83 mm on my screen. The height of the first pink bar was 37 mm. (37/83) x 500 = 223.

[Maybe that's "the air."]
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Bob Jewett said:
I like the cut of your ruler, if you don't mind my saying so, but since the original data were quantized (by pixels in the image) it is better to use that quantization to find the number range probably represented by the image.

I find 62 pixels per 500 counts or about 8 counts per pixel. The bar in question is 28 pixels high, which gives an estimated count of 225+-4. That says that 223 is not necessarily a wrong guess.

Bob <--- who in a previous life spent many happy hours picking data values off graphs and drawing more graphs
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Well that's all just dandy.

Why didn't I think of enlarging and counting pixels? :confused:

All I could think of was taking about a minute and sorting the list and dividing it equally with something like excel.

But the rub is, I don't have the list.

Carry on guys.

JC
 
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