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Base 2 Log Scale Axis
- 6 years ago
The information you have provided is not making the problem clear to me. Can you please explain with an example.
- Tieryn6 years agoRegular Visitor
I've got a column chart plotting # of cases run at different parallel scales. In general the number of cores you use works on a base 2 scale.
Data might look like the following... When this is plotted as "Count of Cases by Cores" on a Log-X-Axis, the values don't cluster well with the vertical ticks - as the section are 1-10, 10-100, 100-1000. I'd like the axis to be log-scale but base 2... So the axis values read 1-2-4-8-16-32-64 (or perhaps with the below data, values might be 1-8-64-512-4096 but things would land on the vertical lines splitting the X-axis, rather than being awkwardly spread around them.
# Cores | # Cases
1 | 300
2 | 190
4 | 520
8 | 100
16 | 460
32 | 350
64 | 800
128 | 920
256 | 310
512 | 290
1024 | 550
2048 | 630
4096 | 120
- v-eachen-msft6 years agoCommunity Support
- Tieryn6 years agoRegular Visitor
Hi v-eachen-msft , Thanks for that idea, however that then ranks the x-axis based on the size of the y-axis... Which is not horrible, but certainly doesn't show any trends along the now jumbled x-axis (ie, data goes "16, 8, 64, 1, 32, ..."
It's a better visual than what I had before, but still not ideal as changing the log base. (but will do for now)
Cheers,
Chris