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Histograms are useful int the case of items with a strong love/hate split. The canonical example is the SICP ratings on Amazon: 3.5 average; 177 ratings, 96 fi
by pygy_ 14y ago
Histograms are useful int the case of items with a strong love/hate split.
The canonical example is the SICP ratings on Amazon: 3.5 average; 177 ratings, 96 five stars, 53 one stars.
http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Programs-Engineering/product-reviews/0262011530/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_pop_hist_all?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Prog...
- Xcelerate 14y agoHad to go look up that book. It's actually available free from MIT: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
- pygy_ 14y agoThe videos of the lectures but the book authors (Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson) are also available for free. Pick the MPEG1 versions. They are much heavier than the MPEG4 versions, but the text on the projected computer screen is at readable. IIRC, the MPEG4 are re-encoded versions of the MPEG1, which themselves were ripped from VHS. http://archive.org/details/mit_ocw_sicp http://archive.org/details/mit_ocw_sicp