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This is really cool. Looking forward to the R Notebook vs. Jupyter shootout. Question: under "Distribution of average scores", I notice both distributions have
by semi-extrinsic 10y ago
This is really cool. Looking forward to the R Notebook vs. Jupyter shootout.
Question: under "Distribution of average scores", I notice both distributions have a trend of oscillating up/down on every other bar. Is that a binning artifact, or somehow inherent in the Amazon rating system? With counts of O(1e5) I was expecting much smoother histograms.
- minimaxir 10y agoKeep in mind the cumulative distribution of reviews. With 5 reviews minimum, the average has few sig-figs of precision, which is why the binning is also set to 1 sig-fig. It also makes the chart more readable. (2 sig-figs would add up to 10x as many columns, with potential for gaps with missing values)