Chart type · Retention
Odds grid
How to read it
Every cell is one possible outcome and exactly one is lit. Count the grid rather than reading the percentage. When the grid is only a sample, the zoom-out shows how small it is next to the real N, and an odds ladder puts the figure on a log scale against familiar long shots.
Best for
Probabilities and rarities, where a percentage is abstract but a grid is not.
When not to use it
You only have a vague likelihood rather than a real one-in-N figure. Very large N is handled — the grid is scaled down and zoomed out, and the ladder keeps rival odds comparable — but a grid alone can't show it.
The common mistake
Treating “1 in N” as a schedule. One-in-a-hundred odds do not mean it happens once every hundred tries.
Example data
Your odds of being struck by lightning
Lifetime risk, one person
1 in 15.3K
lifetime odds of being struck by lightning
The sample dataset this format ships with, drawn the way the site draws every clip's numbers — hover, sort or step through it. Figures as given by its source line: Illustrative example data.
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