1liberationlibraryzim
Dear Team,
There is a bug on the Genre Pie Chart which is resulting in some genres (and the books belonging to those genres) being completely absent from the display.
Please bear with me as I try to explain the issue. The pie chart does not include the labels for all genres presumably because of space constraints around the edge of the circle. That is understandable. However, where a genre's label is not included around the edge of the circle, it means that those books are not included in the pie chart at all. That presumably is a bug in the code.
Let me illustrate with a particular genre. LibraryThing's genre "Nonfiction" is not labelled on the pie chart but the books classified as such should appear on the pie chart between the labels "LGBTQ+" and "Philosophy". We know this because that is where that genre (those books) appear on another chart called "Entry dates by Genre" which uses the same genre classification system. On that chart, even though the chart does not have a line labelled "Nonfiction", you will still see a bubble of those books classified as "Nonfiction" appearing on the chart between the line labelled "LGBTQ+" and the line labelled "Philosophy". You can see what genre it is by hovering your mouse above the bubble. However, on the Genres Pie Chart those books classified as "Nonfiction" are not displayed or accounted for AT ALL. It's as if they do not exist. So, if a majority of one's books fall in the genres that are not labelled on the "Genres" Pie Chart, then the pie chart will be grossly inaccurate as most books will be completely absent from it.
Other genres affected by the same bug (based off their placement in the Entry Date chart) include the following:
"Fiction and Literature" which should appear between "Fantasy" and "Food and Cooking"
"General Fiction" which should appear between "Food and Cooking" and "Graphic Novels and Comics"
There may well be others I didn't spot.
Ideally, all of LibraryThing's designated genres should be labelled and displayed on the Genres pie charge. If however, there is not sufficient space around the edge of the circle to do so, please could you at least add those "pies" to the display so that you can view those genres by hovering the mouse over them, similarly to how it is displayed on the "Entry dates by Genre" chart. Because at present, those genres/books are entirely missing from the display.
Thanks in advance for your help.
There is a bug on the Genre Pie Chart which is resulting in some genres (and the books belonging to those genres) being completely absent from the display.
Please bear with me as I try to explain the issue. The pie chart does not include the labels for all genres presumably because of space constraints around the edge of the circle. That is understandable. However, where a genre's label is not included around the edge of the circle, it means that those books are not included in the pie chart at all. That presumably is a bug in the code.
Let me illustrate with a particular genre. LibraryThing's genre "Nonfiction" is not labelled on the pie chart but the books classified as such should appear on the pie chart between the labels "LGBTQ+" and "Philosophy". We know this because that is where that genre (those books) appear on another chart called "Entry dates by Genre" which uses the same genre classification system. On that chart, even though the chart does not have a line labelled "Nonfiction", you will still see a bubble of those books classified as "Nonfiction" appearing on the chart between the line labelled "LGBTQ+" and the line labelled "Philosophy". You can see what genre it is by hovering your mouse above the bubble. However, on the Genres Pie Chart those books classified as "Nonfiction" are not displayed or accounted for AT ALL. It's as if they do not exist. So, if a majority of one's books fall in the genres that are not labelled on the "Genres" Pie Chart, then the pie chart will be grossly inaccurate as most books will be completely absent from it.
Other genres affected by the same bug (based off their placement in the Entry Date chart) include the following:
"Fiction and Literature" which should appear between "Fantasy" and "Food and Cooking"
"General Fiction" which should appear between "Food and Cooking" and "Graphic Novels and Comics"
There may well be others I didn't spot.
Ideally, all of LibraryThing's designated genres should be labelled and displayed on the Genres pie charge. If however, there is not sufficient space around the edge of the circle to do so, please could you at least add those "pies" to the display so that you can view those genres by hovering the mouse over them, similarly to how it is displayed on the "Entry dates by Genre" chart. Because at present, those genres/books are entirely missing from the display.
Thanks in advance for your help.
2knerd.knitter
Is this the chart you're talking about:
One thing is that it's not a pie chart; it's a polar chart, and it only shows the genres that you have the most of, but it also excludes Fiction and Literature and Nonfiction as those are overarching categories that would dwarf the rest of the chart since most things are in one or the other; it also excludes General Fiction and General Non-fiction because those would probably also be much larger.
Also, if you're looking at the chart on the overview page, you could look at the one on the genres page, as I think it shows all genres (again, excluding Fiction and Literature, Non-Fiction, and General Fiction/Non-fiction): https://www.librarything.com/stats/MEMBERNAME/genre
One thing is that it's not a pie chart; it's a polar chart, and it only shows the genres that you have the most of, but it also excludes Fiction and Literature and Nonfiction as those are overarching categories that would dwarf the rest of the chart since most things are in one or the other; it also excludes General Fiction and General Non-fiction because those would probably also be much larger.
Also, if you're looking at the chart on the overview page, you could look at the one on the genres page, as I think it shows all genres (again, excluding Fiction and Literature, Non-Fiction, and General Fiction/Non-fiction): https://www.librarything.com/stats/MEMBERNAME/genre
