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Statistical Consultants Ltd
Company blog · statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blogdatascience
Statistical Consultants Ltd is the company blog at statisticalconsultants.co.nz, writing about data and science. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How the world separates its digits”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's post on how countries write decimal and thousands separators, citing it for facts about which countries use commas or dots. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Statistical Consultants Ltd is based in Auckland and provides a wide range of data analytics and other consulting services, locally and internationally.
Most-linked posts?
- How the world separates its digits2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-07
- /blog/how-the-world-separates-its-decimals-m.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-05
What Hacker News says?
All europe except england. [1,0] http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/how-the-world-s...
Comment linking /blog/how-the-world-separates-its-decimals-m.html
on “"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords”Submitted The German Tank Problem (2010) as a story · 58 points
HN discussionNumber inputs are amazingly bad. In many languages, comma is considered the correct decimal separator [1], but if your users enter that they will break the input in about half of the browsers. As far as I understand, there's no way to feature detect this stuff. Why not just use text input? Because on iOS, `type="number"` is the only way to get a keyboard with both digits and a decimal separator. So, browser sniffing…
Comment linking /blog/how-the-world-separates-its-decimals.html
on “A story about <input>”Submitted How the world separates its digits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAccording to [1] there are at least 8 more countries with that kind of a thousend seperator [1] http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/how-the-world-s...
Comment linking /blog/how-the-world-separates-its-digits.html
on “500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app”Submitted Text-Mining of US Pager Messages from 11 September 2001 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLots of countries get dots and commas backward. [0] Lots of countries also drive on the wrong side [1], but the two seem to have no correlation. [0] http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/how-the-world-s... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic
Comment linking /blog/how-the-world-separates-its-decimals-m.html
on “Real time Greek referendum results”