God, yes. It frustrated me so much that I ended up just copying the data into JS arrays and generating my own charts using the Google Visualization API.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25782/sourceforge.html

Pretty eye-opening. What's clear is that the 'Other' category brings so much uncertainty to the data that it renders the data virtually useless.

Indeed. A single chart with time on the horizontal axis, downloads on the vertical axis, and one line per operating system would have been far more comprehensible.

Instead we get time inverted, bar graphs, and no way to visually compare the operating systems.

It also isn't very good to have an "other" category of ~60M averaged when your three "main" are ~60M, ~4M and ~3M.

Terrible article.

Rather.

It took me a while to figure out the dates were MM/DD/YY. Even then, why is the day included? Are these per-day, and if so, why are they making sweeping generalisations about all of April? If they're just point markers why aren't they in line, and why are the bars separated?

It's great they managed to provide the full stats - in a completely uncopyable format. Let me break out tessaract. http://i.imgur.com/VDtUp.png http://i.imgur.com/nuKxl.png for (only marginally) more helpful visualisations

EDIT: warpdude's ones four hours ago and two comments down look nicer