LibraryThing – My New Thing
A few days ago I discovered LibraryThing, a social networking site for booklovers. Think Myspace for bibliophiles. What a good idea. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it. Envy aside, I’m surprised—amazed really—that the site has been around for two years and this is the first time I’ve come across it. Google has [...]
How to do Percentile Ranking in Oracle
Recently I had to provide a script to convert a dataset of raw assessment scores into an Oracle table with the scores ordered by percentile rank. This is a common request so I figured a short, non-technical post on percentile ranking might be helpful to a lot of people. There are three main ways to [...]
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