Graph of LaserBTB Prices in relation to Wavelength!

[RidiculousRosco]

Here is a graph I spent a good while on; I used almost all lasers between 50mW and $150 (because that was my budget), on laserbtb. My main goal was to get VERY wide visualization of a typical reliable companies' prices for each wavelength, and then maybe make some purchases!
Most of my time was spent simply filling in the data points, but I'm content with the formatting and how it came out. Not entirely sure why the arrangement didn't aline correctly, but anyway, here's the graph:

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SM = Single Mode
SC = Seperate Crystal
GSC = Glued Separate Crystal


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If anyone wants, I can post each laser in order of color if you wish. I believe I excluded a relatively decent 450nm-520nm diving laser if you want me to add that. Hope you guys find this useful, or at least interesting.

 

[RidiculousRosco]

Apparently my attempt didn't work. Oh well, here's this (an FYI, the URL is interactive, so it will still be much better than this):

 

[cutyall]

This is pretty cool, dude!

 

[RidiculousRosco]

Thanks man! I really appreciate that you like it My major interest was in visualizing the cheapest for each milliwatt, and so far, nothing has beaten a good old fashioned graph! Hope a some more people like it too.

 

[clansley]

Is there an order to the lasers? I was hoping for order by wavelength then cost.

 

[rhd]

This doesn't seem to be a graph of price in relation to wavelength... it seems to be a randomly ordered list of lasers and their price, with a bar indicating total power. Not really useful as is...

Maybe it would be more useful to put price on the Y, power on the X, and then use a line graph with one line per series of handheld.

 

[Alaskan]

A chart showing highest relative perceived brightness vs cost would be good too

 

[SteveT]

Very useful thanks... + REP

 

[mortuus]

hey thats not bad at all interesting

 

[RidiculousRosco]

This doesn't seem to be a graph of price in relation to wavelength... it seems to be a randomly ordered list of lasers and their price, with a bar indicating total power. Not really useful as is...

Maybe it would be more useful to put price on the Y, power on the X, and then use a line graph with one line per series of handheld.

rhd, This graph is showing the WAVELENGTH, MODEL, and COST. It isn't intended to be visually appealing. The order is suppose to be in relevance to power, the software I used just didn't aline them all perfectly.
That thought crossed my mind, but I didn't want to make multiple graphs. I may do that later.

Don't compare the image to the code I provided, they're very different; using the code allows you to hover over each bar to visualize it's price and what type of laser it is.

Also, (this may be obvious for many, but for those which it isn't):
HL = Handheld
PL = Portable
LP = Laser Pointer (Pen)

A chart showing highest relative perceived brightness vs cost would be good too

Switch the sides around, rewrite it with different information. I like the thought. Although what I like more is using separate graphs for each wavelength and/or laser type, or maybe even a scatter chart!

 

[NightExplorer96]

^I personally think a visually appealing graph would help et your information across and would help viewers stay interested.

In all honesty, it looks like you have taken a lot of time and effort to do this, and that's great! Not saying anything bad about your work, but to me, when I started looking at it I just wanted to move on to something else since It didn't look to organized and wavelengths where all over the place.

If I can give you some tips, try to organize the wavelengths together(I.e put 532 with 532, same for others) instead of having 650nm, 532nm,445nm,532nm. It just makes it confusing you see?

-Alex

 

[olympus mons]

Thank you for taking the time to make this. You have got some good feedback here. I think Green lander had a great tip. Putting the WL grouped together would be very helpful..
Awesome job rep for you.