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CMDR_omnicognate t1_j7kurur wrote

I don't really understand why Disney is split up like this... marvel and 20th century are also Disney now, you could argue its split by franchise but then the image in the Disney bar graph shows star wars, so why is Lucasfilm included in this? does that include Pixar too? their own animation studios? why not just have Disney, and everything they own, then also have marvel or 20th century separately to illustrate how large Disney is and how it's distribution is split amongst different IP's?

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DaoFerret t1_j7kuj1p wrote

They couldn’t buy the FOX broadcast channels because they owned ABC. (Barred from owning two networks)

Murdoch wanted to keep FOX News (it was the part that wasn’t for sale)

They didn’t want/need FOX Sports because they already owned ESPN. (I don’t think they were barred from buying it, and I don’t think it was not for sale, they just weren’t interested?)

(Not disagreeing, just clarifying)

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Cough_Geek OP t1_j7kucf7 wrote

[OC] audio collected through a smartphone cough monitoring application. Audio to visual scalogram generated in R (wavelet transform), decomposing the signal into frequencies. Purple background allows to see where the explosive peak of a cough sound happens, with the vocal phase of a cough following as trailing bright spots.

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mavajo t1_j7ku2iw wrote

I mean, is it inconsistent, or is it just a judgment call? I imagine dude was trying to thread the needle between a consistent methodology and interesting, digestible data. He could treat every subsidiary individually, but then you could have a highly fragmented list of players. He could have kept it top-level, but then you end up missing out on individual data for key entities. He probably split the difference to make it interesting to his audience while still providing relevant data.

This isn't a scientific study. It's a post on a sub about attractive presentations of data. I think OP succeeded.

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