First!

I don't see anything "beautiful" about that table Burnsy 😆

I knew some comedic genius was going to post that.

You fell right into my trap. 🙂

Burnwinter wrote:

comedic genius

4 days later

I wanted to do my masters thesis on visualising football stats but my lecturers wouldn't let me. Ended up doing it on economic data, so boring.

What do you think of the table? The layout's a bit sparse (too much screen real estate) but I like the way it shows how goals are spread and/or concentrated over the matches in a club's season.

Really stands out how efficient United have been converting goals to wins vs our occasional big bags with slim pickings in between.

It's pretty good actually but has some serious flaws going down the table due to not having goals against as a consistant contrasting colour. Look at Villa for example and you don't really have any clear idea about whats going on, at least not without looking hard, which sort of defeats the purpose. Not sure why they have draws faded out either.

Burnwinter wrote:

What do you think of the table? The layout's a bit sparse (too much screen real estate) but I like the way it shows how goals are spread and/or concentrated over the matches in a club's season.

Really stands out how efficient United have been converting goals to wins vs our occasional big bags with slim pickings in between.

Its nice looking but its not the clearest. The space between clubs is way too big too. It looks less like a table and more like 2 separate graphs. I think it should be the second level of something interactive ideally. Has potential if they keep working on it though. I'd love to be able to click on each match for more graphs on each game. That'd make it an excellent resource.

qs! wrote:

I wanted to do my masters thesis on visualising football stats but my lecturers wouldn't let me. Ended up doing it on economic data, so boring.

😆 Never mind, you might a job with Arsenal.

what kind of site is viewable only in Chrome or Safari. who wants a google browser and who uses Safari?

Chrome is the best by looooooooong.

Why are you of that opinion Cap? Heard it before mind, but not heard any real arguments as to why.

Find it to be faster than firefox, IE etc, significantly faster in the case of Firefox (opera is not even an option).

I also like the sync function although I couldn't tell you if that was a unique feature (probably not). As an example, if I've left my desktop on with a few tabs open, I can log into chrome from my laptop or someone's tablet etc. and find those tabs instantly under the "other devices" button; it's pretty much seamless.

Chrome also seems much smoother when you have umpteen tabs open although it will crash occasionally and another negative, although it's a rare occurence, is that you will occasionally run into something web based that Chrome won't run, so you have to open IE and launch it there.

chrome's a great browser. just don't notice the impact of being there versus firefox. the other browers, IE/Safari just feel inferior, including basic things like searching in the address bar. my one issue is just diversifying from google. they have me for search, email, youtube, maps. don't need them knowing where i go on the Internet as well.

Chrome incognito, baby!

She'll never find out.

Chrome and Firefox are the only browsers worth a tap. Safari and IE are awful.

IE is so much slower than other browsers for anything JavaScript-y that my team generally has to develop an alternative version for IE for our mapping apps.

It's improved with IE9 but the way IE has had it's own interpretations of HTML and CSS for years has been ludicrous and infuriating.

Simple usability test just now: I wanted to add a bookmark by putting in the URL manually (it's a redirect so I can't just load up the page and bookmark it); simple and intuitive in Chrome and Firefox, mad and maddening in IE9 and Safari.

Microsoft should really just jump ship to WebKit in my opinion. Would make everyone's lives easier.

Working in consulting the hellish thing is the number of corporates who are still stuck on IE7, or even a patched IE6, because they have some age-old SAP timesheet system or something similar that relies on IE-specific quirks.

In the case of mapping with client-side vector geometry (which uses SVG usually) IE pre-9 handles about 200 lines or points, everything else around 10k. Depressing stuff.

I use Opera for most stuff. Chrome sometimes because it's quicker when it comes to running Silverlight which is the required plugin where I stream stuff. Have tried to switch to it full time but can't do it. Too many functions I've grown accustomed to in Opera. It's such a customisable browser too. Can do anything with it.