{"id":18423,"date":"2009-04-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/04\/28\/a-simple-bar-chart-on-letter-distribution\/"},"modified":"2009-04-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T10:00:00","slug":"a-simple-bar-chart-on-letter-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090428-00\/?p=18423","title":{"rendered":"A simple bar chart on letter distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was visiting a colleague’s office in another building and I spotted a whiteboard on which the following enigmatic bar chart was drawn. The source data for the analysis was left unspecified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Letter Distribution<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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3<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\nS<\/td>\n <\/td>\nN<\/td>\n <\/td>\nO<\/td>\n <\/td>\nP<\/td>\n <\/td>\nD<\/td>\n <\/td>\nG<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

It looks like there’s an entire Web site devoted to profound charts like this<\/a>. For example, a graph of beer bottle distribution as a function of the number of bottles taken down and passed around<\/a>. <\/p>\n

When I showed this Web site to one of my friends, he responded, “Oh, great, now I’m not going to get anything done for a week and it’s all your fault.” <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the charts on graphjam appear to have diverged in recent months from the site’s original conception as a reinterpretation of music and popular culture. Now it’s just snarky charts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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