On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:48 AM, hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Knowing what percentage of different OSes are being used is of >> interest to package developers and would be obscured by the proposal >> to massage the data. I prefer to see the raw figure as is. > > I agree. I was arguing that sorting by that value wasn't very useful. > >> Also the number of IPs are important and should not be removed in my >> opinion since (1) it is a measure of clustering. If a package is >> mainly used by the courses of a few universities where the students >> really have no choice then that seems a lot different than if its used >> by a variety of people around the world. Only the IPs would give any >> clue to that. (2) it helps to diagnose intentional distortion of the >> figures by repeat downloads to the same machine. > > There is no way to tease apart (1) and (2), plus many adsl providers > share an ip across multiple subscribers. Number of unique IPs may > still be useful, but it needs to be used with caution. > >> The one problem with sparkline graphs is that it would take a lot >> longer for the page to load. There already is a time series if you >> click on the package name. > > Is it a time series? It looks like a bar chart of downloads per day > of week to me. >
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