Oh, good. I was worrying that you might have a bad customer. > On Aug 4, 2019, at 3:05 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > I'm not plotting this but using it for searching. > > I'm not really lying. I'm trying to come up with the raw numbers from many > individual components. It's like "Gone with the Wind" and "Apocalypse Now" > both getting 100 on Rotten Tomatoes. But if you looked under the hood and > added up components such as sound, costumes, artwork, casting... and applied > a weight to each then "Apocalypse Now" might get a raw rating of 800 and > "Gone with the Wind" get a 790. But they are both so close to the top I > would want them to both get 100. I can do this via the "human factor" by > manually adjusting some of the results(mostly at the top) but I would like > to somewhat automate it so when the components change I will do a > re-calculation run and say the top number goes up by 25 all the manual > adjustments go out the window. I want this to be somewhat automated. > > Ralph DiMola > IT Director > Evergreen Information Services > rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf > Of Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode > Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2019 4:33 PM > To: How to use LiveCode > Cc: Dar Scott Consulting > Subject: Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers > > I was thinking the same, but was to afraid to say it. Yes, the actual name > is "lying". > > However, there might be an honest attempt to display crowded dots or icons. > >> On Aug 4, 2019, at 2:19 PM, hh via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >>> Ralph D. wrote: >>> I'm sure there's an actual name for doing this in the statistician's >>> world but I don't know what it is. >> >> This has nothing to do with "statistics". >> This is simply "try to lie by data cheating". >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
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