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Excellent points, thank you.

The players graph is tough. There are many 0 entries which means a true log scale is out. A linear graph ends up being dominated by Apple and Google so you can't really see the other organizations. I should call out the scale more explicitly though. Btw, the scale is technically a sqrt scale: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Quantitative-Scales#sqrt

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If Apple and Google dominate, the graph really should show that. Can I propose breaking it down into two graphs: One with Google, Apple and other; and the other graph breaking down the others?

It's a hard problem, but I really think non-linear scales obfuscate more than they clarify for stuff like this. Non-linear scales should be used to eliminate variables not relevant to the analysis. That Google is 10* Samsung is part of, and not extrenuous to, the analysis here.

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