[Babase] Important update to Ranker Tweaking

Jun Yang junyang at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 12:36:50 EDT 2008


Hi Tabby,

I just double-checked the rnktypes tables in babase_test and babase,
and made sure that they are consistent.

Can you elaborate on what exactly is unexpected? Do babase_test and
babase have identical contents for the ranks table (and other tables)?
If they are, then the behavior of the ranker should be consistent.

When you said below that the ranker creates an order that does not
match the one you saw in babase_test. What exactly do you mean?

1. Was there already an order stored for 2007-01-01 for that
group/rank type in babase_test, but not in babase (or vice versa)? If
that's the case, it's not the ranker's problem, because somebody has
manually saved an order in one database but not the other, and that
order may or may not be consist with the default (we expect users to
make manual tweaks to orders).

2. If the above is not case, and you are saying that for both babase
and babase_test, the ranker incorporated the same previous ranking
(2006-12-01) but came with different default rankings, then one
possible explanation is that the two databases are not completely
synchronized, and certain factors affecting the default ranking differ
across these two databases.

--- Jun Y.


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:27 AM, kfenn <kfenn at princeton.edu> wrote:
> Jun Yang wrote:
>>
>> When you first connect to babase through ranker (in its welcome
>> screen), you can select babase-test and then all reads and writes will
>> go to babase-test instead of babase. Alternatively, you can also save
>> the ranking to a file (on your computer), load it, and then then later
>> save to a database.
>>
>
> Sorry, I'm the one who told Lacey it wasn't working.  I had forgotten the
> exact nature of my problem with this so I checked again this morning.   Yes,
> you can select which dbase to work with but connecting to babase_test
> creates mistakes in the rank order.  For instance, when I create and ALF
> matrix for Omo in 2007-01-01, it asks if I want to use the most recent
> 2006-12-01 ranking.  If I accept this default, it creates an order that does
> not match the one I see in babase_test (ACA is first but DUI should be
> rank1).
>
> Tabby
>>
>> --- Jun Y.
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