I’m a wordsmith requesting help from the most mathematical persons I know. Daniel Wigton (nprofile…j0nx) feel free to jump in here too if you’d like to!
So, if all goes as planned, my bot should be generating and posting:
1. Horizontal bar leaderboard (weekly & monthly) — your anchor chart. Average guesses per player, sorted best-to-worst, with the worst performer at the bottom. Bars pointing left-to-right mean "shorter = better," so consider inverting the axis so the winner literally has the shortest bar — that mimics the golf-scoreboard feel and reads instantly. Color or annotate bars where a miss occurred (penalize X as 7 points, or show a marker).
2. Stacked bar of guess distribution per player. This is the Wordle emoji grid rendered properly: one bar per player, segments for "solved in 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / missed." It shows how each player wins — the 2-guess wizard vs. the grinder who survives on 4s. Best/worst becomes visually obvious: winners pile up mass on the left, strugglers drift right.
3. Rolling average line chart (progress/regress over time). Each player is a line, y-axis is 7-day or 30-day rolling average guesses. Trends show who's improving (line heading down) and who's regressing (climbing toward 5–6). Keep it to maybe your top 5–8 players per chart or it turns into spaghetti.
4. Heatmap of player × week. Rows are players, columns are weeks, cells colored by average score (green = great, red = bad). One glance answers "who fell apart in March?" and "whose hot streak is real?" This is arguably the best single progress/regress view you can build.
5. Rank-change (bump) chart, week over week. Shows churn in the standings — satisfying if your group is competitive.
So my question to you is, should I make the daily scoreboard a (Stacked) Distribution Bar Chart? And also, am I using the right charts to showcase the data most effectively?
