Comments on: Applying My Measure of Judicial Activism http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/06/applying-my-measure-of-judicial-activism.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:16:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Corey Yung http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/06/applying-my-measure-of-judicial-activism.html/comment-page-1#comment-64040 Corey Yung Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:40:41 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=16800#comment-64040 Hi Matt, The lines owe only to the fact that I am not proficient with Excel's graphing options and have trouble making the bar chart look right with negative numbers. Still, by popular demand, I have replaced the second graph with a bar chart. Truthfully, the first graph should be a bar chart too since it is not a continuum. Corey Hi Matt,

The lines owe only to the fact that I am not proficient with Excel’s graphing options and have trouble making the bar chart look right with negative numbers. Still, by popular demand, I have replaced the second graph with a bar chart. Truthfully, the first graph should be a bar chart too since it is not a continuum.

Corey

]]> By: Matthew Sag http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/06/applying-my-measure-of-judicial-activism.html/comment-page-1#comment-64036 Matthew Sag Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:29:22 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=16800#comment-64036 Interesting stuff. What does the line connecting each president represent? It does not really make much sense to me to graph your results this way. Presidents are individuals, not part of a continuum. Interesting stuff. What does the line connecting each president represent? It does not really make much sense to me to graph your results this way. Presidents are individuals, not part of a continuum.

]]> By: Corey Yung http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/06/applying-my-measure-of-judicial-activism.html/comment-page-1#comment-64029 Corey Yung Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:11:39 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=16800#comment-64029 Hi Peter, Thanks for the comment. I actually originally had both graphs as bars instead of lines. Because I wanted to also have the reversal rates on the same graph, I found Excel's bar chart to be very confusing with one bar in the negative numbers. Since I'm not used to Excel's graph options, I didn't know how to improve the default settings and just opted for line graphs instead. I definitely plan to use bar graphs (or something else) in my final paper. Corey Hi Peter,

Thanks for the comment. I actually originally had both graphs as bars instead of lines. Because I wanted to also have the reversal rates on the same graph, I found Excel’s bar chart to be very confusing with one bar in the negative numbers. Since I’m not used to Excel’s graph options, I didn’t know how to improve the default settings and just opted for line graphs instead. I definitely plan to use bar graphs (or something else) in my final paper.

Corey

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]]> By: Peter http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/06/applying-my-measure-of-judicial-activism.html/comment-page-1#comment-64015 Peter Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:07:42 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=16800#comment-64015 Corey, this is a very interesting project and I will look forward to reading more about your findings. a brief comment about graph design: the line graph, with its (at least implicit) suggestion that the lines themselves are tracking something, seems a poor way of representing what are in fact separate data points. Ihere isn't any data to be captured in the space *between* Ford and Carter, etc. A bar graph (or just the data points, unconnected by a line) would make your point while avoiding this wrong implication. for more, see Edward Tufte's work on the visual display of information. Corey, this is a very interesting project and I will look forward to reading more about your findings. a brief comment about graph design: the line graph, with its (at least implicit) suggestion that the lines themselves are tracking something, seems a poor way of representing what are in fact separate data points. Ihere isn’t any data to be captured in the space *between* Ford and Carter, etc. A bar graph (or just the data points, unconnected by a line) would make your point while avoiding this wrong implication. for more, see Edward Tufte’s work on the visual display of information.

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