982629 - Use a consistent color for bars on GCCrashes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Socorro :: Webapp, task)

Description

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

Currently the bar graph on GC Crashes uses the four base colors that is used all over crash stats however, for this graph a larger range of color shades is needed to avoid repetition.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

And I would have thought we might want to use a single color as it's basically one single series of data we are displaying, and not tons of different data.

Comment 2

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

Sent pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/pull/1945

Comment 3

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

(In reply to Robert Kaiser (:[e-mail]) from comment #1)
> And I would have thought we might want to use a single color as it's
> basically one single series of data we are displaying, and not tons of
> different data.

You mean literally a single color or, shades of a single color, like for instance here:
http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111018/choropleth.html

Comment 4

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2014-03-12 at 17.34.10.png

Comment 5

[Lonnen :lonnen]

attachment 8389846 [details] is much better. We're plotting a single variable as it changes over time, so using the same color indicates continuity. If the color varied it would imply another dimension to the data that we just don't have.

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

Comment on attachment 8389846 [details]
Screen Shot 2014-03-12 at 17.34.10.png

+1 to what Lonnen said :)

Comment 7

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

(In reply to Chris Lonnen :lonnen from comment #5)
> attachment 8389846 [details] is much better. We're plotting a single
> variable as it changes over time, so using the same color indicates
> continuity. If the color varied it would imply another dimension to the data
> that we just don't have.

Lonnen, you are the graph master :) Thanks for your input, much appreciated.

(In reply to Robert Kaiser (:[e-mail]) from comment #6)
> Comment on attachment 8389846 [details]
> Screen Shot 2014-03-12 at 17.34.10.png
> 
> +1 to what Lonnen said :)

Thanks KaiRo

Comment 8

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/socorro

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/commit/5dfcc0bdfedf458f37aeb352be2f588ac847e64b
Fix Bug 982629, use wider range of colors for graph on gc crashes

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/commit/5a277c93de2ccb0ed854e7f08306b3feaee710ad
Merge pull request #1945 from ossreleasefeed/bug982629-use-wider-range-of-colors-for-graph

Fix Bug 982629, use single color for graph on gc crashes

Comment 9

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

QA Steps
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Graph should now displays bars in a single color.