[Babase] Re: Enhancements to Ranker
Jun Yang
junyang at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 13:14:43 EST 2008
On Jan 8, 2008 10:36 AM, Lacey Maryott <lacey.maryott at duke.edu> wrote:
> Ok, so to clarify, If I want to rank all members of grp 1.1 for January
> '06 based on interactions which took place in Jan 06, both of the date
> fields should be for Jan 1 - Jan 31 06?
That's exactly right.
> I think it is definitely the case that the old ranker loaded them in the
> previous months rank order. As I have never needed to actually create
> matrices, Susan, Tabby, do either of you have any input on whether it
> would be better to have it automatically load previous rankings, or to
> load alphabetically and then have the explicit step to ask it to order
> the individuals according to the previous months ranking? From what I
> know of the process, I don't forsee there ever being a time when we
> won't want the matrices ordered according to the previous month's
> ranking, but like I said, I haven't run enough of these myself to know
> whether those circumstances would present themselves that we would want
> them listed alphabetically, or how much it would slow down the process
> to have to reorder them each time.
Let me address this point in my reply to Tabby's message.
> Sounds good, although I think my confusion on this is cleared up at
> least :-P Just need to pick the same date ranges for both fields in
> most cases, right?
That's correct.
--- Jun Y.
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