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All I am seeing is a table (not a chart). Am I missing something?

Sorry about the confusion. I treat tables as a first-class data visualisation type. The app will have more chart types. I'm just launching with tables right now. But even the tables will be interactive soon and display more information visually in the form of colour coding, sorting and filtering.

It's an important and not trivial lesson. Your language is wrong for us, the readers, and we are far more likely to reject your site without a real attempt to engage. A chart is a chart, a table is a table.

I was amongst many it seems who were discombobulated when we arrived at the site. I was wondering whether the chart was in flash or something had not loaded. And I felt very let down and negative about the table, as I was expecting some sort of x/y bubble chart, where the bubbles showed the number of users and the x/y axes showing something like usability and feature-set. Now that or similar would be a chart worth looking at.

I'm sorry you feel let down. I don't mean to mislead anyone. I'm adding features which will make it clear why I call these charts.

Also, bubble charts and more are coming to the site, so thanks for a great idea for a chart!

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