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Tag Archives: Statistics
Python Module Usage Stats – Feb 2011
Here are the top 30 “base modules”, ordered by number of PyPI projects importing them. These results are based on 11,204 packages download from PyPI. Explanations, full results and code to generate them are available below. Continue reading
The Art and Science of Pulling Numbers Out of Your Sleeve
About a year or so ago, I was reading R. V. Jones’ excellent book ‘Most Secret War’. One of the stories I remembered and told my colleagues about, was how Jones estimated the rocket production capabilities of the Germans. He … Continue reading
Posted in Projects, Statistics
Tagged Estimation, Most Secret War, Order of Magnitude, Physics, R.V. Jones, Statistics
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Solution for the Random Selection Challenge
A few days ago, I wrote up two small Python Challenges. Several people have presented solutions for the first challenge, and I also posted my solution in the comments there. However, the second challenge remained unsolved, and I will present … Continue reading
Small Python Challenge No. 3 – Random Selection
This time I’ll give two related problems, both not too hard. Lets warm up with the first: You have a mapping between items and probabilities. You need to choose each item with its probability. For example, consider the items [‘good’, … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Math, Programming, Python
Tagged challenge, probability distribution, Programming, Python, random selection, Statistics
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Python module usage statistics – Cont.
Well, very embarrassingly for me, turns out I had a bug in my original post and code. As per Doug’s suggestion, I tried running the script I wrote on the standard library, and got results I didn’t quite believe. So … Continue reading
Posted in Math, Programming, Python
Tagged module usage, Python, Python packages, Statistics
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Python module usage statistics
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The code I used to create these statistics had some bugs. The fixed statistics are available here. After reading Doug Hellman’s post about python stdlib modules he needs the documentation to, I commented there that I need the … Continue reading
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Tagged module usage, Python, Python packages, Statistics
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