[Babase] Re: Enhancements to Ranker

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Tue Dec 4 09:31:38 EST 2007


Michael Altmann wrote:
> Susan and Karl both pointed me towards the mailing list, so perhaps in the
> interest of efficiency some one person could flesh out, and post, the
> details on the following TODOs
>
>
> High Priority
> Fix Anomalous interaction occurances (requires some extensive code clean up)
>
> Q: More detail?
>
> Fix Rnktypes queries so that the correct subset of individuals is produced
> for each rnktype. 
> Q: Where would I get the correct queries?  Which ones are currently wrong?
>   
Lacey ran some tests on these two issues above.  I think the problems 
were primarily male.  She identified (and possibly cleaned up?) the code 
for the second issue, I think.  Lacey, can you fill in the details here?

> Coding flexibility into the time intervals for which the matrices are
> produced. 
> Q: Does this mean the user picks a start and stop date?
>   
Yes, we want the flexibility to pick any stop and start dates we choose.
> Ranks based upon previous month's ranks, not in alphabetical order. This was
> not discussed during the CC, but is important 
>   
You don't have a question here...is this item clear?  At a minimum, we 
need the program to generate each new matrix using the existing rankings 
of the most recent month in the database.  My WISH is to be able to 
specify which month/year rank data I want the program to use to create 
the matrix.
> Lower Priority
> Alternatively place the stats in a seperate, recallable window. A 'Fit' vs
> '100%' zoom option might work too, but these options are less urgent. 
>
>   
That's for Duke to explain, but we were having problems not seeing all 
the snames in the columns and rows.
> Automated extraction of rank reversals 
> Q: More detail?
>   
I can't send attachments on this email list, but I will directly email 
you a sample matrix with the rank reversals circled and a brief 
explanation of what I hope to get.
> Display Month/Year of Currently Displayed Ranking
> Q: Any particular place you had in mind?
>   
Placement isn't so important to me but I want the parameters defining 
the matrix to always appear somewhere when the matrix is viewed.
1)  In the on-screen environment, I don't care if the month/year are in 
a separate popup window with the stats. Presumably, I will generate the 
matrix and fool with it during one sitting and remember the month/year, 
or can easily re-open the popup window if I need to be reminded.  I 
don't know how Lacey and Susan feel about this.
2)  In any electronic output file we need the month year and all 
associated stats to be saved within the same file.  The original ranker 
allowed you to save the output to a text file. I'm not aware of a way to 
save the matrix and stats output right now, but it would be essential to 
have all month year and stats stored with the matrix  (i.e. I don't want 
to ever open a soft copy of a matrix but then not know what parameters I 
used to create it)
3)  In any printed hard copy we need the month year to show up, along 
with the associated statistics.  It would be on one page, if possible 
(when I send the output with the rank reversals, you can see how it 
works now.)

I'll let Lacey and Susan put their 2 cents in.  We can still do a 
conference call once you read this and have a chance to look at the 
attachments I send.


Tabby


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