trendfinder: trendfinder

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trendfinder

Description

For the purposes of this program, "banner" refers to the columns of a crosstab (i.e. answer choices running along the top) and "stem" refers to the rows (answer choices running down the left side). The stem answers can be thought of as "autoweighted" segments.

Usage

trendfinder()

Arguments

so

many

Details

For some reason I thought camelCase was the sort of default for Python coders, and since I was intending to start using Jupyter Notebooks around the time I created the trendfinder package using older versions of the code where I defaulted to snake_case, you will see a random mix of snake_case and modified camelCase* in the package. The case of a variable is, therefore, not in any way intended to be descriptive or show some sort of class (read: my consistency is very bad). Sadly, I learned after I was done that most Python coders use snake_case most of the time unless there's a valid reason (internal consistency or other accepted standards for variable names).

Speaking of there being a trendfinder package–there's a trendfinder package! It's my first one and it is fairly involved, and I didn't take the trouble to learn proper documentation, create vignettes, or fully grok the interplay of libraries/dependencies, functions, params, etc. I mean, even this documentation of an empty function as a sort of readme file is highly suspect. I'm happy to do things correctly if time allows and it is deemed necessary, but as this is something of a stop-gap I'm not going to do it presently.

*I wanted to include acronyms in my variable names, which I guess is generally frowned upon but when it's something like "US Geography" I think it's not too vague. However, I kept coming across cases like "US Adults". USAdults, usAdults, UsAdults all look strange to me. Enter: gonCase. gonCase emphasizes readability of obvious abbreviations by requiring capitalization of the abbreviation and that any leading or trailing letters are lower case. gonCase: whenAcronymsAreDesiredAndUnderscoresAreLoathedWithLessWTFfactor

Value

all the insights

Examples

such example

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