the picture graph

One little picture per thing, lined up so you can count them.

What it leaves outCounting stops working somewhere above a couple of dozen, and a row too long for the page gets cut rather than shrunk.

1 · basics · cartesian · rung 1 · what’s there

GAISE II · Level A p.25 · shipped on the platform · pictureGraphTemplate.ts · curated template, not a wizard mark

Two worked examples

How many pictures would this chart need?

Before you lookWrite down the largest number of pictures you would be willing to count one by one.

civichigh_schools_per_district.csv · 9 rows · 2 columns

how many high schools each of the nine districts runs

What to look atCount your own district's schools on the page, then count the neighbours'. Fullerton and Hacienda run eight; three districts run one. Ask what a district with one high school does differently.

This example draws itself with a small script. With scripting off you can still read every word on this page, and the file itself is at data/high_schools_per_district.csv.

earth and spacerare_planet_methods.csv · 6 rows · 2 columns

the ways we have found the FEWEST planets

What to look atSeventeen planets down to two. These are the methods the big surveys are not using — in the full file they are invisible beside Transit's 4,688, which is why they are worth a picture of their own.

This example draws itself with a small script. With scripting off you can still read every word on this page, and the file itself is at data/rare_planet_methods.csv.

the pool

Now build one yourself.

The pool opens with this file and this shape already drawn, so your first move is to change something rather than to start from nothing. Bring your own CSV if you have one. Nothing is uploaded anywhere — the chart is drawn in your browser, your work saves there, and it downloads as a picture or as a project file you can open again.

Open the pool → the picture graph · high_schools_per_district.csv